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El Paso and North

By dan | Published: November 18, 2009
Tuesday I hung out most of the day, ate at this place called Smokey Mo’s BBQ. It was really good, I think it might be a small chain or something. Rode ramp ranch, it has this foam pit for learning new moves, I tried to learn 360 tuck-no handers, but ended up just tweaking my knee [...]
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Texas

By dan | Published: November 14, 2009
Friday I arrived in Austin, dropped some stuff off at the hostel and then rode to the 9th street trails. I met some locals there who were fixing up the jumps, so I picked up a shovel, cracked a beer and started getting to know them. The jumps were in really rough shape, I guess [...]
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New Orleans

By dan | Published: November 7, 2009
November 7th Drove through Mississippi, saw the destruction from the hurricane along the coast. There was whole streets of nothing but driveways and concrete pads. Some people had motor homes parked where their house use to be. Rolled in to India House, a hostel in New Orleans. It was a really good place with a vintage feel [...]
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Georgia, Florida

By dan | Published: November 3, 2009
Saturday I rode factory skate park, which is just south of Atlanta in a small town called Newman. The park was great, it had a few good box jumps, a perfect mini ramp, and even a vert ramp. At one point I climbed the stairs up to the top of the 13ft tall vert ramp and [...]
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New Yawk

By dan | Published: November 2, 2009
We arrived in Brooklyn on Friday and met up with this dude called Ben who rides. He was rad and let us crash at his place for a few days. Ben’s roomate Ryan also rides and his other roomate is this Andrew dude who has 3 foot long dreadlocks. They all live together in the [...]
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Pennsylvania

By dan | Published: October 25, 2009
October 24 Right now were in NYC, in Brooklyn, staying in this dope apartment building, Pittsburgh was pretty lame, tried to find this skate park called Mr. Smalls, but couldn’t figure it out. Finally managed to find propane at a U-haul. The streets were all back up or closed because they were shooting some car chase scene [...]
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Ohio

By dan | Published: October 19, 2009
October 19 Ohio was a party, spent 2 days staying with Kyle and his roommates in Toledo, lots of partying, zero bike riding. This kid called Jeff showed up from Cleveland, and we ended up following him down there and hitting up a house party the first night. After that we ended up sleeping on the floor [...]
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Michigan

By dan | Published: October 19, 2009
I’ve been waiting to post this because I can’t find the camera, anyways whenever it turns up I’ll post some pictures… October 15 Right now were in Toledo, Ohio. Monday we went to this town just outside Detroit and met up with this dude called Jesse who rides. Stayed at his crib for a night and rode Transition [...]
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Chicago

By dan | Published: October 12, 2009
October 11 Well we got to Chicago for Riot Fest on Thursday for 7 Seconds, but it was sold out, so we didn’t do much on that night. On Friday we went and saw Wax, No Empathy, Rights of the Accused, and Naked Raygun. There was an after party at this dive bar called the cobra [...]
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More Milwaukee

By dan | Published: October 12, 2009
October 8th At the moment were parked at yet another Wal Mart, this time in Chicago. 7 Seconds is playing tonight, but it’s sold out and I didn’t buy tickets in advance… we were just at the venue and we couldn’t get in. Yesterday in Milwaukee we rode this rad little concrete skate park in the morning Toured [...]
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