Crazy for the Storm: A Memoir of Survival by Norman Ollestad

Author:Norman Ollestad
Language: eng
Format: mobi, epub
Tags: Autobiography, Surfing, San Bernardino Mountains, Technology & Engineering, Travel, Aircraft accident victims, Essays & Travelogues, Sports & Recreation, General, Parenting, Personal Memoirs, Child surfers, California, Aircraft accidents, Fatherhood, Skiing, Biography & Autobiography, Biography And Autobiography, Family & Relationships, Biography, Aeronautics & Astronautics
ISBN: 9780061766787
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2010-07-22T07:00:00+00:00

CHAPTER 18

MY DAD AND I took the ferry directly from Puerto Vallarta to La Paz, avoiding any chance of running across those federales again. From La Paz we drove the Baja highway north, homebound. In Tijuana we went to a bullfight. I rooted for the bull.

We spent the night in a hotel in San Diego and the next morning my dad woke me and we were in front of my mom’s house on Topanga Beach. He opened the door to the side walkway and I listened for sounds of Nick coming down the corridor. My dad knocked on the sliding-glass door.

Hey hey, said my mom as she opened the door. It’s the Dynamic Duo.

I peeked inside. She leaned down and kissed me.

Hi Mom, I said.

Look at you. Brown as a berry.

My dad stepped inside and went to the fridge. My mom patted the back of my head.

So blond, Norman, she said. How was the trip?

Good, I said.

My dad bit into a peach and he shut the fridge and peered at me over Mom’s shoulder. In his eyes not a trace of those rifle barrels or the gunshot or the days we spent adrift—just the afterglow of tube rides and sunshine.

So it wasn’t as bad as you thought it was going to be? she said.

I shook my head.

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