Just watched Timmy Turner's surf film, Second Thoughts. Wanted to see if it would play on my notebook computer. It did thankfully. It's a film of three American surfers who travel to an island in Indonesia on the super cheap to find waves, camp out and surf.

They are dropped off on the island by locals who are asked to return for them in four weeks. Subsistence camping and epic barrels---rights and lefts---are the order of the film. Incredibly honest filming showing Timmy and his two buds deep in way overhead tubes as well as slam downs inside on the reef, stuff usually edited out or not shot by larger budget efforts. I'm impressed!

They filmed some of the best and clearest inside-the-barrel tail shots of surf boards tracking a wave face that I've ever seen: squash and round-pintails and their tail release tracks are there to view. After 42 years of surfing, I'm happy to see the spirit is still in good care and the pioneering for new waves continues. If you consider yourself a core surfer, you'll love Timmy's film.

It's real cold here now in the twenties with NW blowin' about 20 knots. Would love to travel to some warm waves now, but held back by obligations. Still dreaming about waves to come though, just around the corner here. Still road cycling and occasionally swimming indoors. Have entered my first criterium road race in Chesapeake February twenty-fifth. Should be interesting. More later.