Brian Ribakoff

Would you believe I just got an E-Mail address? Some day may even buy me a computer. But,I've got an Internet Cafe right across the road from my place in Phuket, Thailand. So don't be shy! Stay tubed-I know I am!! Big anniversary this year! It was July 5,1963 that I quit my first job [waiter at Indian Hills swimming pool] and bought my first surfboard. Now, a mere 50 years later I am again unemployed; but I do own eleven boards, at least seven of them in usable condition....Oh, how far we have come!! And while I did not fight in Vietnam, I did go surfing there in 1993. Life is sometimes strange that way, no? My how time flies... it's been nearly 10 years so I guess I should update... is anybody out there who remembers me anyway? I last saw Thailand in late 2018. Then the Covid hit and it became difficult to return. Spent a couple of years in a little apartment on South Beach right across the street from the Pelican Yacht Club.... my best job ever, two years as the lifeguard there in late '70s...And now I'm in The Yucatan in southern Mexico. Been here for the past seven months or so trying to improve my Spanish and stop throwing in Thai words, which seems to confuse the local folks to no end. I'm still surfing whenever I can find waves and remember where I left my surf wax... Back to Fort Pierce in April to house and dog sit for my friends, Robert and Sandy Kahn while they cruise the West in their camper. After that, who knows? Some place with warm weather and waves that's for sure! Adios Amigos