Hey Charlie. Amazing how similar our stories are (minus the drug addiction). I too grew up in Florida (east coast). Started surfing when I was twelve. Graduated from Seabreeze HS in 1990. First surf trip to CR was in 1988, and we stayed in a house right on the beach in Jaco for a month. I knew it was a special place and started coming back every year, sometimes several times a year. I permanently moved here in 2000 and now have dual CR/USA citizenship. I fondly remember Dominical in those early days. San Clemente bar was the place to go then, and I would almost bet it's where you worked. I too stopped surfing for a couple years when the C19 crap hit and the idiots closed the beaches for almost a year. I have been living in Esterillos for about 15 years now after I moved down from Guanacaste. You seem like a cool dude maybe I will run into you someday (if I already haven't) at ojochal 9:47. Or maybe you will get up this way and come surf El Pico. Anyway thanks for sharing your story, and Pura Vida.
@@briansprock2248 Sorry to hear about your friend Charles. Charlie Merritt, who is being interviewed on this video chose the video name as an Apocalypse Now movie reference. I looked up Curaçao it looks amazing, I would love to visit some time.
@@juliusthefish Thank you Julius. His spirit still lives. That his spirit still lives is clear to me. The amount of resonance from your this story is incredible. Not only his, but also mine. So it's awesome vid. Thank you again. Keep up the stoke.
@@jbischmann The content clearly motivated you to take time out of your day to watch and now to interact with a community of people with differing opinions about the importance of everyday people's stories. Happy to have you here.
