Time to leave NYC and start heading west. The var (half car half van) is PACKED with bags and 5 brave souls: Abby from Alaska, Rob G from San Jose, Tien and Emma from Australia, and yours truly from New York. We chose the magical traffic hour of 5pm on a Friday to start our journey. First stop, Pittsburgh PA.
Out with the old and in with the new
Out shooting till sunrise for Rob Gs BeMag interview the night before the trip. Found this sticker in Brooklyn
Cars packed up and ready to go
Sad goodbyes
The first of many tickets
Tien getting some last minute Kendama in
Leaving NYC in gridlock
Driving through K town
Smog chamber
Into dirty Jersey
Kirin Cam snaps
Somebody brought crabs
Seaweed / Crab collage / boredom
Met up with Colin Sander in Pittsburgh, and feasted beyond belief at Little Nippers
Woke up and shot some photos with Zack Yourd for the KendamaUSA site. For some reason we decided that shooting it a hundred feet up in a tree would be a good idea.
Some Pittsburgh locals getting introduced to the Dama
Abby helping assist while we went shooting
Colin Sander doing what he does best
And Zack doing … whatever it is Zack does
The pre-skating stretch routine
Boys skating, girls gossiping
Rob meets mural
Everybody finding their ghost double
the building that guards “the beast”
leaf cut-out monsters
Pittsburgh door art
cemented
thanks buster
Last night in Pitts
We stumbled upon this skatepark at 3am just off the interstate heading west
Abby in Ohio
hi!
dangerously high ladder
Tien and friend
mega stores
all the water in this hotel smelled like poo. shame on you Super 8
Postcard #1. Getting stupid at the St Louis arch at 4am
Pulling into Lawrence, Kansas early in the Morning
