Where do dreams go when they die?
Well son of a bitch if I ain’t very boozed with two Americanos thrown on top in order to throw the Islamist boarding agents off my tail.
Yes, I’m headed back to the Middle East and it has been far far far too long. Very far too long but it feels like yesterday that I was doing this same exact dance.
I can’t tell you why I’m going, not to be needlessly secretive, only that I am and only to apologize.
The Middle East used to be my rising and setting sun. Now it is only part of my past with surf replacing.
But do any youthful passions ever actually get replaced? Where do dreams go when they die?
I don’t know.
If I did I’d be in that dream graveyard sleeping the dreamiest sleep. Feeling accomplished instead of failed. Living the unencumbered life exactly like Garrett McNamera or Erik Logan.
Well, c’est la vie as they say.
We are surf journalists now and proud but the past, rearing its head, can’t be ignored and that’s why I apologize to you because maybe it should be ignored. Probably it should be ignored but I ain’t nor will I ever.
Middle East über alles though I will catch you on the flipside, hundreds of thousands of miles from anyone who cares.
So long and God bless. Viva the youthful passions.
(Editor’s note: Chas will be writing when he can from Cairo and surrounds where he has been called on urgent personal business. Hopefully, all will, or can, be revealed in a week or so.)
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Pretty Sad, I don’t even read the articles on here half the time, I just skip straight to the comments. something is wrong with me
There’s a restaurant around here somewhere called Little Cairo. That’s good enough for me.
I’ll wager it’s some Heyerdahl-level kraaaazy mission to prove that the Ancient Egyptians not only invented surfing but in their quest to take it to Hawaii they invented cocaine while travelling through South America looking for new stoke.
Just up the road ,they started the Agricultural Revolution , and then the Sumerians invented accounting ,and then the Egyptian‘s gave birth to monotheism so they probably needed a holiday by the sea in an exotic location and that could have lead them to………..invent cocaine and surfing. This has upset scholars from Hawaii , Peru and the University of California Joel Tudor ?
Was Moses the first wave pool engine?
It is possible but I think it might have been a Japanese girl who goes by the name Sue Nami and her band the Tectonics ?
That’s not what they meant Chas when they said ‘we use the camels’
announcement. Chas flees to fiddle beast. where do dreams go when they die?
He probably just needed to smoke a camel ! Much better than the local Cleopatra Brand they try to peddle as tobacco and don’t be dying for one because you are still going to have to haggle even though you have bought a packet a day from the same guy for the same price for last 4days ? The ASP Dream Tour died and went to Santa Monica whose husband was a Pagan Roman Adulterer?
I could pass for an Arab if someone would lend me some dirty clothes.
Funnily enough while coming out of the airport in Cairo in 91 the most popular duty free items being wheeled out ( literally ) by happy Egyptian travelers were washing machines and refrigerators.
If the above image of Chas chasing after the hunchback of his dreams then hopefully something inspired by Peter O’Toole in “Lawrence of Arabia “ worn by a young David Bowie .
Cairo Ibelli?
His Mummy thinks his name would make him a great Egyptian Ibelliboarder ,capable of wrapping up the title and conserving it for eternity ?
“cocaine and camels. one lump or 2?”
coming to amazon soon
Divine downstrokes on a Shergold. Heaven.
Chas chasing camel toe ^ !
Don’t stay at the Semiramis Intercontinental Hotel. Melania Trump just ran up a 95 thousand dollar tab for a six hour stay.
I once stayed at the Grand Hotel in Luxor for 3 Egyptian Pounds ( about $1) and we were greeted by friendly hotel staff sleeping on outdoor furniture in the garden and lovingly pointing their toes in the direction of the reception . You just can’t get this level of service , intimacy and charm at the big end of town ?
Covering the American backed genocide of the people of Yemen?
At last, something interesting.
Chas, send us the truth news in the isrehell caused turmoil in the middle East.. Be safe comrad.
If I were a racist detective I’d say it sounds like some sort of pyramid scheme.
I always thought the Pyramids were way off in the desert but you can actually seem them from High Rise Hotels on an island surrounded by the Nile smack bang in the middle of El Kahira ( Cairo )
‘Tis true (one side backs onto Cairo city and the other onto the Sahara) however I have to say that every mofo who tells you that only makes it exceed expectations when you’re actually there…
Was staying in the Hilton on the island of Gezira in 91 . Still blown away 30 years down the track . Was expecting an oversized Big Banana but was absolutely shocked by the gargantuan volume and precision from a time 25 centuries before the birth of Christ .( not to mention the kid who asked me for a pen in 5 European languages )
Can’t wait to hear what “urgent personal business” just might include.
Oh it’s a terrifying biz he’s involved in. More to come, and soon.
Ahh come on, can’t we play the guessing game?
Guess! Chas’ll jump in at some point. I have only a skeleton key.
Only?
A wave pool shoot involving a few Ferrari’s, a gaggle of $2K an hour escorts and a couple of balding surf industry perverts?
“balding surf industry perverts”
the goat? jaddy?
Intrigued, for sure!
…but what about the two Americanos? A perfect waste of an Espresso, or not?
E-lo has cancelled his Fiji tour and is sand sup -ing the Western desert and Sahara?