What do you do when you want to learn how to surf but you're over 21? You live in the desert and it's 1998? Put in 5000 hours--the better part of a decade in Mexico & Central America. Need a job? Start a business. Pay for surf travel? Pelicansurf. Convert a beautiful 1974 Crown Supercoach from Sajuarita into a roving hostel and paint it Isabella blue because who can hate Isabella blue? Sell the motor, hitch an old Landcruiser FJ55 to the back, tour up and down the Pacific Coast of Mexico and Central America for two years. Searching for surf. It was a lot of work. I learned a lot. I got beat up burned out but I was still grinning. I sold the Landy, headed back to Tucson, gave the bus to the fire circus and drove them around the country for a summer. They still have it. It still runs. I still dream dreams of getting that bus stuck in mud every now and again.