Gotta tell you, I respect anyone who gets up at 4:00am and drives from Sacramento to the coast. Riks life with his family is in Sacto but his passion is the beach.

He buys my wetsuit (or was it a board?) and from there I start getting these e mails of his conquests. He tells me of scoring SC then Pacifica, then OB another time up the coast at Mendo. How many miles does he drive a year????? Gas prices must have killed him.

So, I’ve only met him once and might not even recognize him again if I ran into him, but he recognized me at the Dr’s office. Fate brought us together at the Dr’s office. The Dr’s office? Let’s just say Rik knows this fickle out of the way place that is one hell of a drive(even for me, yet alone from Sacto) to get to but a place worth the drive when it goes off. Quite frankly, you could go there for 20 years and not hit a day like this.

Rik, these are for you, the day we saw the real Doctor.

Keep the e’s coming, I admire your STOKE!

mag –>