Sean O’Brien and Kurosh Kiani take JC on a slick cruise of the latino city of Miami, all the way down to the sultry sandbars of Key West.
Photos John Carter Story Sean O’Brien and Kurosh Kiani
(Some of the images in this feature are unseen from the story that originally appeared in the January/February 2013 issue of Windsurf Magazine. Print and digital subscriptions for readers worldwide are available HERE.)
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After ten long days wearing winter jackets in the rain at the PWA World Cup in Sylt, I was ready for a warmer destination. I’d jealously studied posters advertising the ‘Miami Slalom Open’ that my Cuban friends in Florida had posted on Facebook – an event I was familiar with having competed last year. So, when the first email arrived from Kurosh Kiani asking if we should clock up a bunch of air miles and top-up our tans, I booked a ticket instantly – there’s nothing sweeter than the allure of 30 deg + temps, crystal clear waters and American-sized meal portions!
The first thing you do when you arrive to the US is go and rent the biggest truck you can find. Why? As Americans would say – ‘Because we can!’ Maybe the years of watching Entourage episodes while waiting for heats to run on the PWA has just emblazoned F-150s and Escalades in to my brain but when I was picked-up from the airport by Kurosh in a sparkling new Ford F-150 with 20” spinners and leather interior, all I cared about at that point was the air-conditioning. Apparently there are more F150s in the world than there are Australians and they sell over a million a year – that’s 107 of these beasts every hour in North America alone!
