MARK FOO INTERVIEW: "SURFING BIG WAVES IS COMBINING ALL THE THINGS I'M SCARED OF" (1988)

Mark Foo was born in Singapore, the son of a State Department intelligence officer—possibly a spy; Mark never knew for sure—and the family was always on the move. A couple of years in Hawaii when Mark was in grade school, then Maryland, then at 14 Mark more or less ran away to Florida's Gulf Coast, before returning to Hawaii where he finished high school. A fairly unmoored life to that point. But ...

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