Just a quick mention and thank you to waterways travel.com. Today's episode with Nick Timpony

was actually recorded in El Salvador last week on our listener surf trip. Waterways organized 20

people from all over, Maui, Maine, the San Juan Islands off of Seattle, Brooklyn, Jersey, California, plus they organized three vans

lugging upwards of 50 surfboards to transport all of us three hours to and from the airport.

It all went off without a hitch. They put us in head-high surf for a week straight. Our drivers doubled as surf guides.

They got us to secret spots without any other human beings in sight. One of the spots was actually

the driver's family's property that he lives on. There's nobody else around. There's an

epic wave out front.

So this is the kind of relationships that Waterways has been establishing and building since 1994.

The resort that they put us at was Hotel Los Mangos, perched on a hill overlooking a beach

break and a point break where we could just survey the waves from

sun up to sundown from our bedrooms or from the restaurant which is where we all congregated.

The food from the restaurant was excellent.

It was a wide variety of things on the menu, not just El Salvadorian food, which we would have

been happy with. They had Wi-Fi,

air conditioning, which is actually kind of necessary to recover from three sessions a day. And then, of

course, we threw curveballs at Waterways and at the resort itself. Scott Bass botched a re-booking of a

ticket, in fact, my ticket, and Waterways got it

fixed at 8 o'clock at night with less than 24 hours before my departure. They helped out,

waterways helped out with medical care from abroad. The resort themselves helped out with medical

care, took Nick Timpony three hours into the

city there and then three hours back to help get his face stitched up. They handled all of our

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