The Perfect Nail
I would like you advise you not to step on a nail the night before a trip to Baja. If, however, you can’t find a way around pressing a rusty and near completely dull object into your tender foot-flesh, make sure you get the right one.
The perfect nail for this kind of endeavor will keep you from departing at 4am, and give you cause to test your bottom turns. This may be because it knows your local spot is oil glass and semi uncrowded, but nails don’t really posses that ability, so it’s probably just chance. Still, chance is a good thing, especially when it’s of the overhead variety.
The perfect nail will also, in my experience, be a small one. Small enough so that it is capable of only making your foot stiff, but large enough that the pain makes you a bit picky with your wave selection. This works in your favor, by leaving you enough energy to go ahead with your short and dusty run.
The perfect nail will also know the swell angle is all wrong for the two good breaks within an hour of your chosen destination. Mine did not. No matter, I wasn’t walking on my sore foot, so we looked a little harder and found something that worked out very nicely.
In closing, I’d like to say, I hope that if you have occasion to step on a nail, you get one as kind and thoughtful as mine. Also, there is no perfect tetanus shot. Your arm is pretty much going to be sore paddling back out to the end of the point. Deal with it.
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October 25th, 2006 at 9:40 am
There is something about a fresh wound and a trip to baja that screams infection. I miss baja, Oregon, it’s not baja.
October 26th, 2006 at 2:34 am
Ooops
October 26th, 2006 at 7:58 am
come to the southwest instead. LOL. we can ride some white sand dunes.
woohoo!
drew
October 26th, 2006 at 4:20 pm
The foot still isn’t green, but don’t think I’m don’t appreciate the thought Jake.