What the heck is Gals – Very Smart Gals? I originally created the Very Smart Gals blog because I wanted, or perhaps needed, to record my memories of my recently departed mom, Willie Belle Forbes Wade.
Photo above - G abby Reece (professional vollyball icon and married to Laird Hamilton), author Susan Casey and extreme-surfer, Laird Hamilton. I was OK thinking that Susan Casey was such a hyper-cool athlete herself (Olympic swimmer, previous editor of Sports Illustrated Women, creative director Outside magazine) that world famous, “purist” surfer (above monetary gain and publicity), and Greek god, Laird Hamilton, would let her tag along on crazy-dangerous adventures surfing in 100 foot hurricane waves. But then I found out that Casey actually paid Hamilton, and that she looks more like a super-model then a super athlete, and somehow I felt a little ripped off. First, let me say that Susan Casey’s stories about surfers who travel all over the world at the drop of a surf board seeking the ultimate wave (the same one the scientists and seafarers warned us about above) was interesting and beautifully told, but by chapter 12 of 15, I was feeling a little wiped out.
Here’s where I lost my innocence about this book.
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