halfmanhalfbook's review
4.0
Anderson hooks up with a old school friend in America and they combine a road trip with surfing all the way up the eastern seaboard of America.
They deliberately time their trip for September, just in the main hurricane season, and start obsessively following the weather reports to see if there are any big hurricanes building. They visit New Orleans and see the devastation that Katrina left and meet with the people who are rebuilding the city and their lives.
There are a couple of non starters in the way of hurricanes, and then, Dean, the big one starts. It builds to a category 5, and the intensity of the storm sends the swell all the way up through Florida to Cape Cod. They start to get some really big day of surfing in.
It does take a while to get to the surfing, but this is a book as much about travel, as it is about surfing. Really enjoyed this, will look out his others.
They deliberately time their trip for September, just in the main hurricane season, and start obsessively following the weather reports to see if there are any big hurricanes building. They visit New Orleans and see the devastation that Katrina left and meet with the people who are rebuilding the city and their lives.
There are a couple of non starters in the way of hurricanes, and then, Dean, the big one starts. It builds to a category 5, and the intensity of the storm sends the swell all the way up through Florida to Cape Cod. They start to get some really big day of surfing in.
It does take a while to get to the surfing, but this is a book as much about travel, as it is about surfing. Really enjoyed this, will look out his others.
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