This past weekend immediately followed my first two-week shift of consulting work up in northeast BC and I was ready for a serious ocean cleanse of body and spirit. The usual crew assembled  to celebrate Shayne’s birthday and we made our ragged way down into America searching for cheap booze, fireworks and surf. The Olympic peninsula didn’t disappoint and we found all three, along with torrents of rain, golden sunsets and muscles strained from all the paddling and smiling.