KL:
K: How long have you been surfing?
PJ: Probably about 20 years or so. A long time.
KL:
Where has some of your best surfing been done?
PJ: France, I wouldn't say in contests 'cause
I never really pulled it together as much as I
could have in contests, but definitely if I charged
down the beach and found my own bank and ate pizza,
drank coke, laid on the beach and surfed for ten
hours that was some of the best surfing I did
for sure, some of the best times of my life. And
in the Maldives, I did some pretty good surfing
there. And you know, at my home break in Australia.
KL:
Which is…?
PJ: Bondi Beach in Sydney.
KL:
When did you start doing the tour?
PJ: I did it straight out of high school when
I was about seventeen. I got on a plane and didn't
go home for about six or seven months. I didn't
really plan it that way, I was actually supposed
to go to university, so I deferred, but then I
never went back. I just kept doing the tour. I
did it actually for two years and then quit for
a few and did some outrigger canoe paddling in
Australia, then came back a little bit later.
KL:
Do you have any bad habits?
PJ: Yeah, I spend too much time on the internet.
I use it like a library. I type up random things
and read things all day long, and that's a waist
of time. And I eat a lot of chocolate. One day
when I'm sixty I'll regret it because I'll be
the size of a house.
KL:
Do you follow any specific religions?
PJ: I try to avoid focusing on one. Probably the
one I pay most attention to is Buddhism, but I
don't consider that a religion as much as a way
to be, a way to travel. I've read about the Kabala,
but now that's cool so I don't even want to read
about it anymore. And you know I was definitely
brought up Catholic, so yeah, a little Christianity.
KL:
Are you often misunderstood by Americans because
of your Ozzie accent?
PJ: Um, yeah, lately. For some reason my accent
has been stronger lately. Mostly people don't
understand my name, they think I say Drew or something.
KL:
What do you like about the States compared to
Australia?
PJ: That shops don't close early, and I can get
dinner at eleven o'clock at night once I get around
to it. My friends, the people, they're good people.
I think at the heart of it, the U.S. is a really
good country with people who want opportunity
and who want to help out other people.
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