{"id":168412,"date":"2026-02-07T19:11:03","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T19:11:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/168412\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T19:11:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T19:11:03","slug":"the-san-diego-surf-legend-who-really-is-living-the-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/168412\/","title":{"rendered":"the San Diego Surf Legend Who Really Is Living the Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Glen<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not an easy life, but it\u2019s the only life Glen Horn would accept. Photo: Ebner<\/p>\n

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Everyone who surfs wants to surf forever. Hell, the point of surfing all the time is so you can continue to surf all the time. But time waits for no man, as they say, and it\u2019s not waiting for Glen Horn, either. Horn doesn\u2019t mind, because he\u2019s a guy who knows that dedication brings rewards. And he is nothing if not dedicated to surfing.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy classic moment in my life is going to be when I\u2019m here and I\u2019m surfing,\u201d he said in The Bull: The Surf Legend Who Walked Away From Everything<\/a>. \u201cThere\u2019s a moment when we\u2019re surfing here when the sun goes down and the back lit part of the wave is emerald green and there\u2019s slight offshore breezes and every figure in the wave is just a shadow. But an average person is just looking at everybody in the water and all they see is a black figure. When I\u2019m 100 years old, I\u2019ll be out there surfing and you won\u2019t be able to tell if that\u2019s a 100-year-old guy or if it\u2019s a 20-year-old guy or a 40-year-old guy. That\u2019s going to be the classic moment that tells me that it\u2019s all going according to plan.\u201d<\/p>\n

The film is a rare one in this day and age of surf videos. Eric Ebner, a fantastically talented documentary filmmaker from Michigan, put this gem together. It\u2019s a story of a man who, as the title infers, walked away from everything. Or walked away from the things in life he deemed less important, anyway.<\/p>\n

Horn is a bit of an underground San Diego surfing legend. His life revolves around waves and physical fitness; living quietly with a tiny footprint. He shaped his first surfboard at the age of 12. Soon after, he was exploring all that Baja has to offer, poking his nose into every nook and cranny he could find. He\u2019s never stopped.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve met men like Horn.<\/a> There are a handful of them in Baja, especially. They\u2019re generally a little crusty, but you can tell from the smile lines and the glint in their eye that they\u2019ve tapped into something the rest of us haven\u2019t. They\u2019ve got their dogs sometimes. They\u2019ve got the seasonal friends who land on the beach for a few months of waves, beer, and bocce before returning home to \u201creal\u201d life. But for men like Horn, \u201creal\u201d is just the present. For the right person, it appears to be a recipe for the simplest kind of happiness there is. It\u2019s worth chasing, but it\u2019s not for everyone. It\u2019s a hard kind of happiness; one that only comes with years of self-reliance and adventures untold. Luckily, he found a partner who loved that life as much as he does.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe beauty of this place is that it takes someone with a harsh want to live in this environment,\u201d Horn said. \u201cYou work to get to this kind of place. But I do love this land deep into my soul\u2026 It\u2019s not just a vacation, it\u2019s my life.\u201d<\/p>\n

In The Bull, Ebner captures the beauty of living sparsely. Horn is 67 now, but you wouldn\u2019t know it from watching him surf. It\u2019s a lifestyle that\u2019s easy to romanticize, but difficult to live. Horn, though, wouldn\u2019t have it any other way.<\/p>\n

\u201cI would like to be remembered as somebody who kept the spirit of the way we started surfing alive,\u201d he said. \u201cSomebody who found that spot. That place in life where nothing else matters.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s not an easy life, but it\u2019s the only life Glen Horn would accept. Photo: Ebner Everyone who…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168413,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[28318,80934,80935,2457,74,76,75,80936,80937],"class_list":["post-168412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-baja","tag-glen","tag-glen-horn","tag-mexico","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news","tag-surf-exploration","tag-the-bull"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168413"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}