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It takes quite some ingenuity for five landlocked Austrians to get to ride waves for three months straight. Or at least the juggling of a few figures: In Costa Rica, they say, offroaders sell for double their price in LA. Plusminus a couple of bucks. You just have to get them through 7000 miles of Central America. We estimated to be on the road for three months, not including a few moments for eternity along the coast and in the waves of Mexico, El Salvador, Nicaragua, and Costa Rica. Quite some time altogether to dig into the sublime secrets of waveriding and the myth of the surfer-dude. Our goals were of an economic as well as a journalistic and of course an athletic nature. The trip had to pay for itself, thats at least what our spirit of sportsmanship required, our surfing abilities should raise to the power of three minimum - and in the end, or so we hoped, we would come up with a story full of drama, adventures and philosophical diversions.
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