This update takes us back a few weeks, between arriving in Vancouver and Jim’s hand breakage. Around this time there wasn’t a lot of picture takin’ goin on, so You’ll just have to use your imagination…
July 19
Been in Vancouver for a week now, there is always something on the go here.
Sunday we went to a small farmers market with lots of organic stuff. Then we went to Commercial, aka “car-free day” which happens every Sunday. They close a couple blocks in the city and there’s all sorts of vendors, street shows, and weird hippy stuff.
Monday we rode Kirkstone park, it had a nice spine and lots of decent rails to jib.
Tuesday we rode Bonsar and New west minster park. Bonsar was crazy, it had a 16ft full pipe and a huge street section. New west minster looked like it had been built in the 80s. It was almost all banks and hips and stuff. I keep forgetting the camera, so there’s no picture of these parks.
Wednesday we checked out a show at the Cobalt, which is a total dive. The Cobalt is vancouvers punk/metal bar. I met some cool people there and this Sam dude invited us to a basement show at his house the next day.
The basement show was great, I don’t remember what and of the bands were called but we met some rad people. A few nights later there was another show in an old theater that we checked out. It was Mudlark headling, but one of the opening bands really took the show with a five minute long set that sounded like Charles Bronson covers. I think they were called war command or something.
After the show all the punks were heading down to the water for a campfire and beers, so we checked that out for a bit.
Around about this time Jim broke his hand so we decided to check out the Island for a few days.
Been a while
This update takes us back a few weeks, between arriving in Vancouver and Jim’s hand breakage. Around this time there wasn’t a lot of picture takin’ goin on, so You’ll just have to use your imagination…
July 19
Been in Vancouver for a week now, there is always something on the go here.
Sunday we went to a small farmers market with lots of organic stuff. Then we went to Commercial, aka “car-free day” which happens every Sunday. They close a couple blocks in the city and there’s all sorts of vendors, street shows, and weird hippy stuff.
Monday we rode Kirkstone park, it had a nice spine and lots of decent rails to jib.
Tuesday we rode Bonsar and New west minster park. Bonsar was crazy, it had a 16ft full pipe and a huge street section. New west minster looked like it had been built in the 80s. It was almost all banks and hips and stuff. I keep forgetting the camera, so there’s no picture of these parks.
Wednesday we checked out a show at the Cobalt, which is a total dive. The Cobalt is vancouvers punk/metal bar. I met some cool people there and this Sam dude invited us to a basement show at his house the next day.
The basement show was great, I don’t remember what and of the bands were called but we met some rad people. A few nights later there was another show in an old theater that we checked out. It was Mudlark headling, but one of the opening bands really took the show with a five minute long set that sounded like Charles Bronson covers. I think they were called war command or something.
After the show all the punks were heading down to the water for a campfire and beers, so we checked that out for a bit.
Around about this time Jim broke his hand so we decided to check out the Island for a few days.