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Exchanged our little beach pad while I was gone in order to help my son get a start in New York City. As my parents always would say, "Give your children experiences". So although during the departure for Hawaii and later New Zealand, I worked continuously for forty eight hours, it was worth it.
Don knew he needed a change from the San Francisco life and job that he had. Although it took courage to head for New York City without a job beforehand during The Great Recession he decided to do so. The exchange I arranged was for an apartment on W. 17th Street, which was a great location. It took a while but he landed a job and he now lives in Brooklyn.
Now one of the first things I did when I returned was to head to the Senior Center in Laguna Beach where I had been teaching computer technology to a great group of seniors. Laguna Beach has some incredibly interesting seniors. At home one of the first drawers I opened was my olympic tee shirt drawer with a few notes about the olympics of my past and related stories; some about surfing, some about my experiences at my eleven olympics.
Was reminded of the Duke Kahanamoku story and the Kawananakoa cousins who came to a military academy near Santa Cruz and Uncle David who blessed our outrigger canoes in the year 2000. The cousins carved their own surf boards and brought surfing to California in the 1800's. The Duke, also introduced it to many and popularized this great sport as well in the early 1900's. I was able to meet Carol Kawananakoa in Hawaii because of a Laguna Beach Senior, Johnny Garau, Laguna's oldest living veteran lifeguard. To be continued.
Don knew he needed a change from the San Francisco life and job that he had. Although it took courage to head for New York City without a job beforehand during The Great Recession he decided to do so. The exchange I arranged was for an apartment on W. 17th Street, which was a great location. It took a while but he landed a job and he now lives in Brooklyn.
Now one of the first things I did when I returned was to head to the Senior Center in Laguna Beach where I had been teaching computer technology to a great group of seniors. Laguna Beach has some incredibly interesting seniors. At home one of the first drawers I opened was my olympic tee shirt drawer with a few notes about the olympics of my past and related stories; some about surfing, some about my experiences at my eleven olympics.
Was reminded of the Duke Kahanamoku story and the Kawananakoa cousins who came to a military academy near Santa Cruz and Uncle David who blessed our outrigger canoes in the year 2000. The cousins carved their own surf boards and brought surfing to California in the 1800's. The Duke, also introduced it to many and popularized this great sport as well in the early 1900's. I was able to meet Carol Kawananakoa in Hawaii because of a Laguna Beach Senior, Johnny Garau, Laguna's oldest living veteran lifeguard. To be continued.
