As cascading Middle East conflicts send global equity markets into a freefall over surging oil prices, local expats in Baja California Sur are facing a much graver crisis: the Pacific swell is firing right at low tide and nobody can find their reef booties. While Wall Street panics over crude futures, Todd from Seattle is deeply concerned that his morning avocado toast might cost an extra ten pesos. Truly, the collapse of modern financial architecture means very little when the chest-high peelers are wrapping around the point at Cerritos.