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George King's Journey: A Short Story
Have you ever thought, “If only I’d known this when I was 20?” or something like that? I did. I was walking somewhere and wondering if it had really been about 50 years ago George King and I were making plans for our trip to Encinitas, CA to go surfing. We were both 18, doing nothing of great importance and always had the desire to find a better wave than the one I was riding at the time.

George came by my house, we loaded all my belonging inside his car and my surfboard on the roof of his, I think, 1963 VW bug with an engine made to go really fast. And that began a journey that a few days later landed us in California for our first surf adventure. There would be many more of those that followed that involved other friends. That driving pull

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