California Roadtrip Photo Overload!
Hello everybody! I know its been a little bit so I wanted to update everybody on the Third Kind™ California roadtrip, and share lots of pictures from along the way. So the quick update is this: we left Jacksonville on 4/20/16 for California. We stopped in several spots along the way and picked up two shops outside of California while traveling. After a brief stay in Tucson for a little bit we hit the road for San Diego. This was yet another LONG stretch through tons of mountains but clear California night skies!
We made it into San Diego early in May then spent just about 2 weeks in the area and racked up two new shops, Soul Grind and Clairemont Surf, along with making several new friends and checking out the Mighty Mama’s skate event. Soon we found ourselves up in L.A hanging out at the grand opening of our first L.A vendor, The Shop, and running around the greater Los Angeles area visiting a ton of shops, skating piers and boardwalks along the way in cities like Huntington Beach, Hermosa Beach, Redondo Beach, and even Hollywood Boulevard itself! This trip lead to a short stint on a Dudesons vlog yewww! We picked up another L.A area shop in Torrance at Project Sk8shop, metsome cool folks at Arbor (I had to buy a board while in California…skateboarders impulse) and had a very sweet business meeting with an awesome group in Venice before another quick stint back in San Diego.
This time around San Diego we brought RADD Action Sports (Mission Beach area) and Ollie Angel Skate Shop (Imperial Beach area) on board as new vendors. Back to L.A where we grabbed Cherry Smoke & Skate in Long Beach as a new vendor. Meanwhile back in Torrance got to meet Lance Mountain and Rodney Mullen (AHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!) at a very cool museum event. From here it was mostly work work work, our visit to Sunken City after hanging out at San Pedro Shred Fest, bringing Urban Feet in San Pedro on board as an awesome new vendor, and spending some time in Venice Beach at Maui and Sons, our original California vendor, shooting a couple videos for a future website update.
Now we are nearly caught up on the California story, and we have been back in San Diego for a couple weeks. So far we’ve had an amazing Go Skateboarding Day up at Sector 9 skating and hanging with some very cool skaters, had more AWESOME business meetings, and got to witness some amazing skateboarding and help a great cause at Clash at Clairemont which was presented by Grind For Life, who we hope to work with in the very near future!. This awesome event featured some sick vert skating, a killer street jam and a pool jam. But the big daddy was SKATERCROSS which was the first event of its kind. WHEW! So thats where we are at right now, as I post this from the library at the beautiful San Diego State University. I’ll post up some GSD 2016 pictures here but hope to get a blog up about Clash at Clairemont soon too. Until then I hope you enjoy the picture overload, our internet is sporadic in California so I dont get to update too often!
- Welcometo San Diego!
- Random business wall art
- Cinco de Mayo lights!
- Rockin out at McGill’s Skateshop!
- Portraits of the Bones Brigade!!!
- Great local brewery in San Diego Benchmark Brewing
- PCH sunset
- Johnny Cash on an Ocean Beach mural.
- Clairemont Surf! San Diego!
- Random wall art in San Diego
- Hot air balloons along I-5
- MId City L.A, home to The Shop!
- The King does not drink the King of Beers….
- Elvis in L.A
- Parking spot waiting for us in Costa Mesa
- Chad hanging out at Greenroom OC who showed us some love!
- Pizzanista! Awesomely tasty vegan pizza options, and skater owned!
- Mmmm Mmmm thats some tasy pizza at Pizzanista
- Mike V’s collab box at PIzzanista
- Tagged the tip jar at Pizzanista!
- LIghting up the Green Room on this sculpture in Newport Beach
- Lookingdown the pier in Hermosa Beach
- Honda! This place is HUGE!
- Strong old man eh?
- “Bad Grandpa” at Muscle Beach
- Venice Skatepark!
- Daves new Arbor near a Venice canal
- Trippy panorama of the Pacific Ocean in Huntington Beach
- The big surfboard in Huntington Beach, outside the Surfing Museum..
- Another So Cal sunset
- Leaving our mark.
- Found a Third Kind™ buddy on the road!
- Tom Cruise are you in there? Is John Travolta with you?…
- Yes please. Aston Martin.
- Oh the things you can eat in Hollywood
- Hollywood traffic….not so fun
- Mural in Hollywood
- Man. Myth. Legend. Hank WIlliams.
- I found Dory!
- Hard Rock on Hollywood Boulevard!
- Hollywood Boulevard! Yewww!
- We light up bikes too
- Storm clouds? In So Cal? Crazy!
- Panorama of the Jay Adams mural in Venice
- Jay Adams mural, and Chad. Venice.
- Rockin out at the post office in Pacific Beach (San Diego)
- RADD Action Sports, Mission Beach (San Diego). Rent or Buy a longboard!
- Holy Rock formations! Outside of San Diego
- Friendly kitty on the prowl for someone to hang out with near El Cajon
- Friendly kitty at the RV park near El Cajon
- Ollie Angel in Imperial Beach (San Diego)
- Chad outside Slappys Garage in San Diego!
- SUPER throwback skateboards from the 1960’s at G&S
- Love the pinstriping!
- More detail on that custom painted deck at G&S
- Sick custom painted and leafed skate deck at G&S
- Bombs away! SICK one of a kind complete at G&S
- Cool copper inlayed skateboard at G&S
- Chad in front of some of the skatebaord collection at G&S
- Dave posing by a repurposed Edsel in the LBC
- MIni shrine to Jay Adams at G&S
- More of Lance Mountain and band at TAM
- Lance Mountain and band at Torrance Art Museum
- Us with Lance Mountain!!!
- BIG hill in San Pedro…the area is loaded with them!
- Not many views like this in Florida… taken in San Pedro
- Three eyed fishy, San Pedro
- Urban Feet in San Pedro! Killer shop!
- Chad the mail man in Torrance!
- Hard at work at Sandwich Blvd in Torrance
- Cadillac truck? Sweet!
- Random sunset from the road
- 180 ollie to manual Venice Beach
- Ollie to manual Venice Beach
- Boneless at the pool in Venice
- Big air at the pool in Venice
- The remains of the pit in Venice
- Chad ripping Venice at night
- Mini shoot at Venice Skatepark
- The train goes down the street at the Torrance Moose
- Video day at Soul Grind!
- San Diego Sunsent
- Late night work flow at SDSU
- Lit ollie at SDSU!
- Killer view from the Sector 9 HQ!
- On site shop at Sector 9
- Muir Skate ran a killer booth at Go Skate Day!
- Left our mark at Sector 9
- Dave was here!
- Another trippy panorama this time the bowl at Sector 9
- Sick indoor bowl at Sector 9
- Bowl action at Sector 9!
- Chad ripping the bowl at Sector 9
- Ripping!
- Cool artwork on the walls at Sector9
- Twinning? At Sector 9 on Go Skate Day
- PB boardwalk legend Slowmo!
- PB boardwalk legend Slowmo!
- Late night dinner with the birthday boy Chad