Week 3 blog

The article that stood out the most for me this week was the Sentimental Journey. The way that it tells the story of growing up around surfing and beach towns reminded me a lot of home and felt like a memoir. It was very interesting to read about how not only surfing culture but also his experience of town life slowly changed over time until San Clemente changed forever with the addition of a freeway. For me it was clear how much impact that surfing had as a culture rather than just a sport in this article. The communities that formed and the way that traditions and norms formed allowed me to relate to it on a personal level as well as being able to relate it to the movie Endless Summer. This also related to the way that music has been related distinctly to surfing and surf guitar and yet because I grew up with it I had never realized that it was such a big part of California history, I had only thought of it as music that i grew up to.