Chasing Waves: A Surfers Tale of Obsessive Wandering By Amy Waeschle
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First surfing adventure narrative by a woman Sales benefit the Surfrider Foundation Amy Waeschle became a surf addict shortly after catching her first wave To her surfing is of a feeling than a sport combining the mental quest for exploration with the physicality of riding a wave Hunting down waves in remote corners of the world from Morocco to Fiji to Canada Waeschle has found unique and fascinating cultures that have changed her views and fostered her surfing mission Chasing Waves is her collection of interrelated stories based on these adventures and a chronicle of her evolution from nervous newbie to self confident and skillful surfer Anyone who has ever longed for a daring diversion from day job and doldrums will connect with these tales of wanderlust vagabonding and riding the surf Chasing Waves A Surfers Tale of Obsessive Wandering
AMY WAESCHLE is the author of the bestselling Cassidy Kincaid mystery series Going Over the Falls Feeding the Fire and the surf memoir Chasing Waves. Fiction Chasing waveshare S in Geology from the University of Washington and has a Masters in Teaching from Seattle University Amy likes to surf run mountain trails travel and spend time with her family She and her husband live in Poulsbo Washington with their two daughters. Chasing Waves booking Chasing Waves follows the author as she first learns to surf the resulting obsession and the surfing adventures that subsequently lead her around the world in search of great waves This memoir reads like a collection of short stories about her surfing adventures albeit in chronological order than a cohesive narrative I wish there had been a little about how surfing fit into or affected her regular life Instead each chapter is only about the next surf expedition Waeschle does a great job though of conveying both the awe and joy of surfing as well as the fear and imminent danger Her story both made me want to surf and also made me never want to surf 9781594851131 Fantastic book Related to the premise very much and it made me want to surf so bad 9781594851131 It s interesting to read Amy s journey about surfing As someone new to surfing I wanted to understand how she became an advanced surfer Amy s writing skills aren t the strongest so the book can get pretty boring at times I wished she dived deeper into her weaknesses and how she overcame them This is a book about her surf vacations while cool doesn t really speak to her journey 9781594851131 I knew we were onto something good when we passed a disquieting bit of voodoo a molding cloth doll with fraying yellow yarn hair and no eyes nailed through the head to a baby fir tree The path was lined with salal shrubs ferns the occasional spiky devil s club salmonberries and a mixed canopy of alder fir and huge cedar When I first heard the surf filtering through the thicket my heartbeat quickened. Kindle Chasing wavestorm Amy Waeschle is a good travel writer Each of her pieces are detailed and personal and she s got a knack for bringing exotic locales to life with vivid natural description Her style is breezy and conversational The minute I began paddling my heart began ramming so hard against my chest that I wondered if it was trying to break free. Suspense Chasing waves plugins I imagined it crying out to the other organs Get out now Save yourselves and her story that of learning to surf in various countries with her husband is immediately relatable to me as an athlete and a woman. Chasing Waves booking The problem is simply too much of a decent thing Taken individually each piece provides a sun soaked glimpse into a woman s journey to master the art of surfing And I mention gender here explicitly because a lot Waeschle s pieces center on emotions and experiences I ve heard from other outdoor adventuring women fear of looking foolish in front of other athletes being denied access to a resource by a group of men feeling responsible for everyone s happiness on a rip to the extent of sacrificing your own just to make sure you fit in and don t seem greedy But the recounting of these experiences while they struck a sympathetic nerve at least with me lose their punch after 150 pages By the end of the fifth piece Canadian Girls Gone Wild in Baja Waeschle s piece about an all women surf yoga camp in Mexico I felt like I d gotten from the book everything it had to offer Yup she s still learning to surf Yup things go wrong when you travel Yup it s kind of tough but thrilling when it goes well. Chasing Waves book There are a couple of standout pieces namely the two set in Costa Rica Why Boyfriends Make Terrible Surf Instructors and How to Surf Your Brains Out in Costa Rica which seems to be the place Waeschle loved the most and perhaps not coincidentally where she learned the most both about surfing and about group expeditions But overall the collection is largely forgettable They re nice sunny pieces about surfing but there s no burning passion no hardship and overcoming no true adventure. EBook Chasing waves audio Which is why the last piece in the book And Baby Makes Three blew me away It s the only piece that focuses on Waeschle s struggles to maintain her itinerant surfing lifestyle with her newborn daughter in tow In the piece Waeschle and her husband take turns surfing and watching the baby in Portugal and there s this genuine lynchpin moment where Waeschle returns from a set of truly mind blowing waves to find her baby daughter screaming and her husband staring shell shocked off into the middle distance It turns out she d been gone for five hours That one moment of realization such a vivid example of how the weight of responsibility has shifted is what s missing from the rest of the book Each essay while prettily written contains no other crystalline moment of transformation and concomitant analysis But because of that last piece now I m dying to find out if she s still surfing And if she s planning on teaching her daughter 9781594851131 This was a nice little read but it didn t really hit me with anything new Not bad but nothing groundbreaking 9781594851131 A lovely read for a fellow obsessed surfer girl Enjoyed this very much 9781594851131 A beautiful escape 9781594851131 This is one of the only female surfing books out there so I was excited to read it I enjoyed hearing about her travels but overall the writing wasn t great 9781594851131
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