I met Jacques at the Amelia Cruizer’s Fall Car Show. At the time, he was maybe a third of the way into a once-in-a-lifetime sequence of events.

We recently took a trip to the west coast of Florida and stayed in Sarasota. It’s such a different place from where we live now — there are a hundred times more choices than we have here, for just about everything. Sarasota is vibrant, thriving, and wonderfully diverse.

Bob McElhenney is often referred to as a living legend by the surf community on the Island.

Steve was the first surfer I met in Fernandina Beach. I walked into his surf shop on a cold, dreary, Tuesday in January and asked him if he rented surfboards.