Merry Christmas!

San Diego's rocked with some surf, but I can't wait to get back to Puerto Rico. It's weird to be homesick when I'm in the town I grew up in. Don't get me wrong, I love San Diego, its just not for me anymore for so many reasons. We had a small showing of our new episode (out in January 08') at a "Ugly Sweater Christmas Party." It was a toy drive for "Toys for Joy," where people brought a new toy to the party and you got in- all toys going to disadvantaged children in San Diego. Pretty cool- everybody seemed to like the show- but I don't know- I always want to make you laugh and cry, we'll see- the waves are by far the best we've ever had for an On Surfari episode so that's good news. Been thinking about where to go next...don't want to give it away, maybe I'll mention somewhere warm, anyone guess? And after that somewhere really cold...? If anyone actually read all this, and emails us their guess and gets one right- I'll send them a DVD of the new episode that hasn't even aired yet. God Bless you this Christmas.- Shayne

Merry Christmas!

Doubly good new for Christmas...Finally done editing that pesky new episode on Indonesia- and it will air this January. The other double double is the waves are good size here in San Diego - not real big, but nice to have some size. I've got an 8'1" Skip Frye gun I got off Ebay and have been wanting to get it into the water. I'll have to save it for another day. Hope you are all doing well! God Bless- Shayne

Editing the new show

My eyes are crossing from lack of sleep right now, but I'm underway editing our new On Surfari show which will be out sometime in January. Sorry I haven't been able to respond to everyone's emails- Shannon and I read them all and do our best to respond soon after. Thank you everyone for your support and stoke. - Shayne

Editing...

The fun and not so fun part of On Surfari- the editing! Sitting here looking out a small window into the great outdoors, logging footage and dreaming up how our new show should be. Lots of great stuff to put in, and a lot will be left on the cutting room floor. I have over 22 hours to make a 22 minute show, so I'm hunting for that best minute of footage...day in day out, waves are small though so it's not so bad- just hate being in front of the computer all day like this. Thinking about going somewhere in January just don't know where? Any ideas? The more out there the better...
Shayne

We're back but not

We're back in California at the moment- starting to edit our show for FuelTV and Nat Geo Intl. It's been very inspiring receiving all of your emails from around the world- from the Maldives to Chili to China- we had no idea our show would go this far. Thank you for all of your kind words and you time to let us know what you think- sorry it takes me forever to write back- but Banyan keeps me plenty busy.

Life can start going a little faster than you can run, and somehow last week, Shannon, Banyan, and I were all in different parts of the States...Shannon at the Christian Surfer's Conference in Cocoa Beach,FL., Banyan with Grandma & Grandpa in SD, and I up in San Fran & Santa Cruz with the QuikSilverEdition team getting a couple of waves and standing around in come cool duds for the new Fall campaign. But my mind is drifting back to the amazing time in Indonesia (though I got tore up by coral, beat up by a Sumbanese boxing champ, and bit by a monkey), and I still have to edit the show together before Dec 1st! I'm procrastinating and can't figure why...Lots of stuff to juggle as well as a lot has happened lately...

Other than that, trying to keep up the pace, focus on getting back to Puerto Rico, and praying for God's guidance in my life.

In Indonesia

I try my best to avoid computers when on the road but here I am because I want to say hi- and Shannon, Banyan, and I are in Indonesia filming our next episode for On Surfari. Don't want to give away locations but it's been a blessing helping out some of tsunami/quake affected villages, scoring some amazing waves of course, and I wanted to say it's very safe out here...so to all the Americans out there who are scared to travel because I haven't met any out here in 3 weeks! Indonesians are tripping we're here... Well off to another island in a couple days and too much swell in the water. You can get bored surfing sometimes even when it's perfect, I've been building some sand castles with lil' Banyan. Take care- Shayne

We're in Indo!

Hey everybody, we're in Singapore airport ready to head in deep dark Indo...could get feral. Thanks for your patience...we promise to return the goods and make it interesting. We're out for 40 days - the Bible says 40 days is a time of testing- Jesus in the desert fasting, noah's flood, etc...don't think our trip with be that epic in proportion but it's long overdue and we are beyond stoked! Did I mention Shannon is expecting another little one! Can't wait! We are accepting submissions for Nannys! Ha. Love all of you guys and girls out there who support us, we couldn't do it without you. I will try to blog more now that I'm on the road, but don't want to get to computer'd out while I'm traveling. Shayne