A DAY AT THE DOGS (SAUSAGE DOGS THAT IS) DAY 21: Newport Beach Today I brushed aside Jaws' presence and went 'surfing'. I hired a suit and board from the shop a few blocks down and borrowed a body board from the motel. I don't know whether it was just the weather, and thus the swell in the sea, or whether it was the fact that it was today that I decided to go surfing, but the waves looked about three times bigger than any other day we'd been on the coast. It...

THE DAY WE MET DUMBLEDORE DAY 20: Newport Beach, Orange County Luckily it was too cold to surf today, but Jen and I thought our bodies deserved some more strenuous exercise than the walking we'd done so far, so we opted for a run along the beach. Turns out running on sand barefoot is not as easy or as nice as it sounds. Having run as far as we wanted we stopped at Newport Pier to watch the surfers, and then as we started to walk back Jen noticed some fins in...