"When I was 8, my parents divorced and my mother married a man whose career took us from Washington to Melbourne Beach, a town on the “Space Coast” of Central Florida, where I learned to surf..."
Read: "After the Agony of Youth, The Ecstasy of Surfing" by Thad Ziolkowski from the NY Times. A paen to Hanalei.
*O.M.O. equals "Our Mother Ocean"