Cowabunga! Check out the California Surf Museum!

Cowabunga! I have heard my surfer friends use this term but I wasn’t exactly sure what it meant. My closest guess is that it means something is not just awesome, but surpasses awesome all the way to becoming totally awesome.

I think that can be used to describe the compact, but full of life, California Surf Museum in Oceanside.

I am not qualified to write this story as an insider, having only bodysurfed. However, by association I have been exposed to the surfing culture since I was in junior high.

What I do know about the surfers is they are a close-knit dedicated group who sometimes face obst...