I’m also not a fan of the new Rail Trail proposal. Whether it was the construction of jetties, longshore drift, or whatever, I miss the bigger beaches. I remember surfing Georges as a kid and how massive the beach was. Aside from a winter as a snowboard bum in Breckenridge, Colorado, and a year traveling around the world with my wife, Lorien, in the late ’90s, I’ve never left.Ģ: If you could snap your fingers and have it done, what might you add, subtract or improve in Encinitas? So really, surfing (directly) and snowboarding (indirectly), and, OK, VG Donuts, is what brought me here. It was the perfect opportunity to realize that dream because it split the drive between school and work. I majored in journalism at SDSU, and when I was a junior I was hired by TransWorld SNOWboarding Magazine in Oceanside. I grew up in Valley Center and Escondido, and it was my dream to move to Encinitas. Originally, the North Country Transit District bus when I was a kid, then my used Dodge Challenger with four surfboards stacked on top of Aloha surf racks and three buddies who pitched in gas money.

Army’s 240th Assault Helicopter Company and Green Beret Staff Sergeant Roy Benavidez, who risked everything to rescue a Special Forces team trapped behind enemy lines during the Vietnam War.

Blehm’s current book, “Legend,” tells the story of the U.S. His first book, “The Last Season,” about the life and disappearance of national park backcountry Ranger Randy Morgenson, was the winner of the National Outdoor Book Award and was named by Outside magazine as one of the “greatest adventure biographies ever written.” Bestseller Fearless,” the story of Naval Special Warfare Operator (SEAL) Adam Brown, who overcame tremendous odds in his rise to SEAL Team Six, is being adapted for film. In 1999, Blehm became the first journalist to accompany an Army Ranger unit on a training mission, inspiring him to eventually write “The Only Thing Worth Dying For,” about an elite team of 11 Green Berets who operated in the hinterland of Taliban-held Afghanistan just weeks after 9/11. Longtime Cardiff resident Eric Blehm is an author of nonfiction books, two of which have been New York Times bestsellers.

The last season by eric blehm