A dog named Rootbeer accompanied the narrator to a beach in San Juan, Puerto Rico, where they took part in a three-hour ocean swim. The narrator enjoys swimming rather than engaging in beach activities like sunbathing. They reflect on their swimming style, mention their small stature in relation to surfboards, and express a whimsical thought about parallels with the film Contact, connecting their surfboard featuring Carl Sagan's decal to the themes of exploration and the ocean.
I surfed a bit. I was a gymnast as a child, so I can ride a wave no problem, except that I'm five foot three and surfboards are, I don't know, closer to six feet, so if the wrong wave ever catches me-boom-I'm dust.
The main thing we did was a long swim in the ocean. I'm talking about three hours of swimming. Well, at least I did.
I like to do a backstroke so I can look up at the sky and feel like I'm in a snow globe.
My surfboard has a decal of Carl Sagan on it. I'm not sure if you're familiar with the ending of the film Contact, with our friend Jodie Foster, but there was water [in the parallel dimension Foster's character journeyed to].
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