Summary

In Chapter 4: 'Scuse Me While I Kiss the Sky: Maui, 1971, the author describes that his relationship with Dominic began to fall apart, though the chapter opens with them camping together in Maui looking for waves in Honolua Bay. The cause of their disengagement was Caryn, Finnegan's first serious girlfriend. Finnegan had planned to bum around Europe with Dominic but then had dropped that in favor of going to Europe with Caryn, whom he had met during senior year. Dominic and Finnegan went to Europe, but Finnegan returned to start college at University of California at Santa Cruz while Dominic stayed with relatives in Italy. They reunited when Dominic was living in a milk truck on Oahu, and Finnegan, whose family had moved back to Honolulu, was on spring break.

Since he had been 16, Finnegan had not spent a lot of time surfing. Instead, he...