Well, when I was a kid, I grew up in San Diego next to the ocean. The ocean was my friend - my best friend.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
I enjoyed growing up part of my life in Virginia Beach. We had the ocean and the beach and a beautiful landscape. We were outdoors all the time and we played outside.
I love the ocean; growing up around Laguna Beach, I spent my summers surfing, diving, and snorkeling.
My mom was born in San Diego, around Vista. So we've always been California people.
I was on the beach every summer. That was the pleasant part of my childhood because we were right by the sea. We'd take a picnic, and I'd spend hours in the water until I turned blue. You couldn't get me out of there.
I grew up at the beach and I was always involved in beach clean-ups and caring for my environment.
My sister and I were born in San Francisco. When our parents died, we came down here to live with relatives.
I grew up in the Midwest, quite far from any ocean or any beach, a million miles. I think for kids who grew up where I did, the idea of California, surfing and beach life was so exotic and glamorous.
When I grew up as a kid, a part of my life - I grew up in Boston near Revere Beach, at my grandma's, and she would take me to the beach.
I was born and raised in Santa Cruz, California, and the whole lifestyle revolves around the beach. My parents met surfing, and the beach was a major part of our daily lives.
I've been around the surf culture since I was a kid. I grew up in a beach town in Rhode Island. Then eventually I lived in Dana Point, Calif., a real surf hotbed.