While boating on Lake Tahoe our skipper, Chris, points out a
mass of boulders out in the water and asks Drew if he’d like to join Chris and
jump off those rocks into the churning water. I whip my head toward Chris in
surprise considering that I know what Drew’s answer is going to be. “Yeah!” sais Drew. “No!”
is my reply to this. Drew sees Chris as something of a Superman. Chris is a
true California boy. Born and raised in San Diego he surfs and skis and
snowboards and skateboards…all the things Drew wants to spend his life doing.
As we prepared to embark on our trip to Nevada Drew is telling me that Chris is
going to teach him how to hang glide and mountain climb and dirt bike and surf
and all of the other extreme sports that he can think of. Drew and Chris worked
on skateboarding basics this time around but when Chris brought up this form of
cliff diving I knew Drew would be all in. Of course Chris was not expecting
such an enthusiastic answer to the positive side of his offer (or maybe he was)
and was not really going to take my baby boy for a crash course in insanity
diving but Drew would’ve done it. I think that Drew sees Chris as having the
potential to walk on water as well as ski on it and dive into it.
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