On the Road.

We have a new travel buddy. it's the Sprint mobile broadband thingy thing. It's little and silver and just sits there and we can have 5 laptops (which we don't have) online in the car or wherever we go... So I'm sitting here and Ben is driving and The Lions Rampant is blasting and Weston is couched out on the gear in the waaay back and Native and Sunshine are in the captain's chairs...

we just ground down 25 pounds of BK at the last exit, and are headed to Flamingo Skateshop in Chattanooga TN in about 40 minutes. There we'll connect with Josh Viles and Daniel. Josh is a terriffic, terrorizing ripper. More joy in the act of destruction than the law allows... except in chatty, where there seems to be quite a bit of street that isn't heavily regulated, and an aquarium complex that HAD to have been designed by skaters!

From there, we're going down to Dalton, GA area, where skateboarding is fully illegal. Last time we were there, eating at a wendy's, there was this full-on ditch sesh that got going and "boooop!" the cops are pulling in there 2 cars strong. We scattered and got them unfocused, narrowly missing our opportunity to explain our love for high-velocity ditch-bombing to ticket-pad-weilding heavies with nothing better to do than to descend on us like shock troops.

The locals (whassup chango) totally warned us about that. we were astonished at the accuracy of their report. Needless to say, we'll stick to the skatepark... except that we'd really like to show you that ditch. it's raaad.

So we'll see... for now, signing off from the road. Lew for Ben, Nick, Wes and Sunshine... Fickle Road Trip Leg 1.