A wild horde is coming to your favorite wave, wakeboards and paddleboards in tow!
Trigger warning: I woke up grouchy this morning. My computer informed me, throughout yesterday, that today would be the start of daylight savings and I was cherishing that extra hour. Not for sleep but for work. For you. I woke up realizing it was a lie, maybe daylight savings started in Australia, and now have one less hour for writing masterpieces.
Also, I read that United Airlines is waiving surfboard airline baggage fees for people flying to California in order to celebrate surfing being officially designated California’s state sport.
It’s fucking bullshit and would you like to read the official press account?
Surfing is now the official sport of California, prompting United Airlines to reduce its fees for checking a surfboard.
The $150 to $200 service fee will be waived for customers traveling to or from California. They will have to pay only the regular checked-bag fee.
Wakeboarders and paddleboarders — the service fee is waived for your boards, too.
“California made it official: surfing is our state sport,” Janet Lamkin, United’s president for California, said in a news release. “We want to make it easier for customers to surf our beautiful beaches, whether they’re visiting or call the Golden State home.”
United is also donating $50,000 to Sustainable Surf, a California-based environmental nonprofit.
Damn them. Damn them all with their wakeboards and paddleboards and mostly their surfboards flooding in to California, crowding our beaches, crowding our breaks. How is that a celebration? How is that a bonus for us? What they should have done is waive fees for surfers traveling from California.
Now that would have been a gift.
Fuckers.
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Enjoy all those planes flying in from Oklahoma
Maybe even take a walk through the Tenderloin with your passport and wallet in your bag if you need to feel that buzz we get from a big wave.
dont know if serious or not but the baggage fee waive applies to flights into or out of CA.
Oh no! imagine a Californian line up crowded!!
BUT BUT – did you not say California is best coast in world so everyone should just flock there with boards no?
won’t lie, i analyzed if it was worth it, but surfing and drinking with Californian’s might be worst than South Floridians. Wish I could duplicate the dialect, but I can’t. Ok, maybe drinking with Californians is the worst, surfing might not be as bad, met a few good ones over the years.
Mile high clubs getting cheap
Originating OR ending in California. But if you were planning on driving to Phoenix to fly to Nicaragua then yep, you should be pissed off.
Let cross our fingers that this policy trickles down through the rest of the airlines too.
no, lets not..fuck. I hate when boards are getting unloaded where I go. selfish prick that I am
Well…The Eagles were right…Hotel California…”but you can never leave”.
Daylight savings yew beauwtay!!!! I promise not to take a surf holiday to California. Rest easy.
Eat and drink in California..sure. Surf…nup.
Eat? Maybe a deep fried steak for the novelty. Drink? Nup. California is just a bunch of beautiful people doing fuck all.
Have you ever been to San Fran Dognuts? The good looking women are few and far between. But does have plenty of beers to drink, and I’m a bit partial to the Mexican food.
Have to admit..I do like watching the Wedge on Youtube
Never been that far north and I actually am not a fan of Mexican food. Maybe the people aren’t that good looking because they slept with people on merit of their artistic ability rather than beauty. And how many beers they consumed.