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...Morro Bay, Calif...
Fred Sears is packing his white F-350 truck for his annual trek from his home in Morro Bay, Calif., to Baja, Mexico, its enormous bed filled with surfboards, wax, wet suit and sunscreen. He is as stoked as any surfer dude in his mid-20s, which by some accounting is what he is. Sears grew up in Hermosa Beach, Calif., and surfed as much as he possibly could during his teenage years. At 15, as soon as he got his driver's license, he began sweeping floors at Hobie SurfBoards, eventually working up to glassing and polishing the boards...
...librarian and amateur painter, and stayed for six weeks again. The next winter they doubled their time, enjoying the waves and the migrating gray whales, and they have been spending three months in Mexico each winter ever since. Sears does not surf when he's at home in Morro Bay, but in Baja he's the chairman of the beach, loving every moment, whether it's talking with the young guys on the sand or paddling out to carve some S-turns on a perfect glassy-faced wave. "Surfers would look at what I do at home...
...with him. In his spare time he volunteers to tend the dogs in sled races, such as the Iditarod that runs from Anchorage to Nome, Alaska, and he leads adventure--natural history tours to remote areas of North America. This past November he went to Churchill, on the Hudson Bay in Canada, to take 14 souls to see polar bears. Last year he led a 500-mile canoe trip down the Yukon...
...Harvard spokeswoman Lauren Marshall said the University is concerned about students’ safety in the area. The two Boston University (BU) undergraduates, sophomore Andrew R. Voluck and freshman Molly F. Shattuck, were hit by a Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority commuter rail train at about 12:50 a.m. Wednesday near BU’s West Campus...