August 2011
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Florida
Photos: Ryan Young
Words: Travis Schirmer
Florida’s New Smyrna Beach was roofed in by an ashy sky that fractured with root-like shapes of blue lightening as our van pulled in to the Shluzas’ driveway. The heat waited patiently behind the clouds, allowing us to skate chunky brick banks and well-constructed skateparks by 4 p.m. on the heels of hurricane Irene. We stared at thrashing palms from...
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New Orleans
Photos: Ryan Young
Words: Travis Schirmer
The heat settled and moisture took its place in New Orleans. Bridges over swampy vegetation lead us to old men beneath straw hats swerving on beach cruisers and slow trudging tour groups. In a flash across the van’s window, Ratface spotted a ramp below a freeway overpass. Joel pulled off at the next exit to find a makeshift skatepark. Trapped...
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Texas
Photos: Ryan Young
Words: Travis Schirmer
We stopped at a gas station somewhere in Texas on our overnight drive to Austin. A beach ball-stomached man inside the convenience store watched us file inside for water as if he’d been anticipating us. He asked what we were doing, and then with the urgency of an amphetamine binge betrayed all the secrets of the carnival games trade. Back inside the...
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New Mexico
Photos: Ryan Young
Additional Photos (3,8,9,18,19): Travis Schirmer
We left downtown Phoenix some time after midnight for New Mexico with no place to sleep. A persistent beeping coming from inside of a building prevented us from camping on the roof of a partially abandoned strip mall. Since no one could take over driving due to exhaustion, Joel pulled into an empty parking lot circled by...
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Phoenix, AZ
Photos: Ryan Young
Additional Photos (3,4,16,17): Travis Schirner
Words: Travis Schirner
The heat in Phoenix created irritability in each individual riding in the van, but it also sent us into a euphoric state when we reached the air-conditioned interior of Cheba Hut, an illegally-themed and exquisite deli in Tempe, Arizona. We decided that the outside world must be slightly cooler than...
Leaving Home
Photos: Ryan Young
Words: Travis Schirmer
We spread our equipment, bags and skateboards on the asphalt outside of Metro Skateshop. Chris landed a new trick on the D.I.Y. cement quarter pipe behind the shop before the van was fully packed. With a barricade of skateboards encasing our luggage we headed south from Pleasant Hill, California to Phoenix, Arizona. During the cross of the...
