California Trip

I spent the past Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday in California skateboarding, snowboarding, and doing tons of other fun things. I didn't want to post an official recap until i had pictures, but the 2 kids who brought cameras have yet to get back to me, so ill do a text update and then hit you with some pictures later.

Tuesday morning I woke at 4 a.m. and had the man, the myth, the one and only, tad cox drive me to J.F.K. international airport. After a few hours of complete and utter chaos, i boarded a plane toothpaste, cologne, and inhailerless. Airport security is a load of dump.

The flight there was kinda shitty. I sat near a group of Hasidic Jews who needed to complain about every single thing as loud as they could. i eventually fell asleep, but when i arose they were still complaining, only 5 decimals louder.

When i finally got to L.A.X. i got my snowboard, backpack, and called the representative from Neff head wear to come pick me up. He drove me to go meet up with some Terry Kennedy, Adam Dyet, Sean Neff, and some Zumiez employees. I was pretty phyced to find out that they were all really fun to be around, because the kids I went to the DC headquarters with were pretty boring. We raced go-karts, hungout at the Neff headquarters, got mad free shit, skated for a while, then designed a shirt for Neff that will be sold in Zumiez nationwide.


Tk had to bounce, but Adam, Sean, and the rest of the Zumiez crew headed to the Powell headquarters to checkout the premier of their new video "Fun!". the video was pretty dope, plus there were mad little nuggets skating around. Fuel TV interviewed us, but i cant find the interview anywhere.

When we left the Powell wear house we headed towards in and out burger, then back to the hotel. I roomed with two other Zumiez employees, one named Eric from Austin Texas, and one other dude who i forgot his name (whoops, sorry dude) but was really cool. Kyle, Chris, our enter to win contestant Mitchell, and his mom all stayed in other rooms.

The next morning we got picked up by the ThirtyTwo crew, which was composed of Alyssa, Erin, and some other girl (whoops). They drove us up to bear mountain. The drive there was crazy, the road to the mountain is like a snake run, and you drive to such a high altitude that you actually drive through clouds. We stopped and peed, then arrived at the mountain. We meet up with JP Walker, Cook (i think he owns 32 or something, I'm not sure) and a bunch of other heads. Snowboarding was awesome, conditions were great and I learned a bunch of new tricks. Afterwards JP and Cook had to do some interview so we all chilled in the lounge before heading back to the hotel.

At the hotel all of us (except Mitchell and his mom) decided to hop outside into the hot tub, which is when Erin got the idea to pull the cover off the pool and jump in. It was the most disgusting, freezing, horrid looking water ever, but all of us except for Chris did it, mainly because Chris is a nu-metal bitch (just playin, much love). She then decided to tell us if we jumped in and swam one lap that she would give us one item from 2 of the companies that sole tech owns (Emerica, Thirtytwo, Es, Altamont, and Etnies). Eric, the other kid who i cant remember his name, and I all did it. We showered, then headed towards some bullshit Italian place, where i found out how much I like NEW YORK pizza. west coast pizza sucks. word up.

We went bowling, that was mad fun. midway through we placed a bet between Eric, Kyle, Cook and myself that whoever has the highest score gets 20 from all the losers. Kyle is a cocky son of a bitch, so we all just decided that if anyone other that kyle wins we don't have to pay up. Eric made the most epic comeback and beat kyle, then he tried to pull the whole "you cheated" card, which didn't work. JP left, and everyone started to get tired, after I played Eric in pool, we bounced back to the hotel to party, and eventually pass out.



I was so bummed on leaving California, everything about that place is so great. But, now I'm home, back to the same routine, awaiting my next chance to go out there. I got a lot of cool shit and have so many cool stories that i forgot to post, and I am so grateful that i got the opportunity to go. Ill hit you all up with some pictures from it soon, but as for now I need to crash. I'm so exhausted.