PHOTOS BY: DJ Struntz
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Suburban Twilight
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This Ride Never Ends.
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T H IS R ID E N EVER E ND S
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Creed, ever exuberant, salutes the bluest sky.
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YO U ’ RE AS CO L D AS I CE .
Alex Smith gouges the heart out of a wave.
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Damien Hobgood, tunnel vision in the twilight zone.
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Nate Tyler has the nicest hands in the business.
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DAVIS.
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OFTEN T IM ES, A DV ENTURE C ALL S F O R S IM PLICITY.
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BU T O T HER T IM ES IT CA LLS FOR A P IRAT E S HIP.
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Dion wonders if his boatmates fear the beard.
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He hopes they do.
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Creed McTaggart loves a mixed palate. Blues, greens, neon pinks, purples and a hell of an air revo.
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C R EED, HU MP ING.
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Tracktop? What tracktop? Creed blasts a naked tail.
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Damien, the headless horseman in the legend of not so sleepy hollow. 029
Dion now wonders if the wave fears the beard. He hopes it does.
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C RE ED IS K IS S E D BY F L IGHT. B IR DS LAN D O N H IS SH O U LDER S, BU TTER FLIES ON HIS FAC E, HIS HA ND S O PE R FE C TLY ON HIS R A IL. 032
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And baby it’s amazing that I’m in this maze with you…
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Nate Tyler gets a little too comfortable
and pays the price.
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AG AI N, WITH THE HA N D S.
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Dion is used to a twisted life. He once sold moonshine out of the back of a Porsche in Hollywood for a living.
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Like to see you beat that hair, Luke Davis.
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T H E SIM P LE PLE ASU RES.
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Dion is less impressed with flexibility
than he is with a vintage teak divan.
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HELL’S
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ANG ELS.
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Creed takes a seat
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Dion, the deep blue yonder.
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Damo is one half of the best twins on earth.
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And here, he does his other half proud.
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Real surfing always takes place ephemerally.
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Nate Tyler,
straight hair.
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YO U ’VE GOT TO D RAW T HE LI N E S OME W HER E. Taj draws his up top.
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TH ER E’S A POT O F GOLD ON TH E OTH ER S IDE.
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Dion
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points the stern to the sky.
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“WE L I V E I N A WO R L D T H AT W E H AV E …
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… S EEN NONE P E RCE N T O F.”
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Out of all his waves during the trip, this was Damien Hobgood’s
main squeeze.
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tha n k yo u fo r