As you may already know, I’m currently on the road in Florida, getting ready to compete in a mini ramp contest on Sunday… this is the crew I’m rolling with:

Big Brad and Donnie “Babykilla”…

Former pro rider Shannon May and Little Joseph…

…my cigarettes. They taste so good, but damn they eat up some lung.

First Stop: Tallahassee

Photos can’t to this place justice… it’s huge, it’s free, and it’s open 24 hours a day. We skated here until we got dizzy. Actually, some of us were dizzy from the trip, making the already surreal landscape even moreso.

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Later on that same morning (the Tallahassee photo above was taken at 1 in the morning), Shannon brought us to these crazy brick transitions. They’re 5 feet, but they go straight to vert. They may look like an easy ride in the photos, but they’re quick as hell… you WILL eat concrete here… all of us had at lest two or three good spills. Here’s some of the damage we were able to inflict on the spot:

Joseph, front layback/bertleman up the kill tranny…

Shannon, FS Rock Layback Steeeeezed out…

Donnie, FS Slasher

Your neighborhood geek, FS Rocks.

Later on, we went to the Orlando Skatepark… concrete everywhere, but the centerpiece was this sick clover bowl:

Here’s a look at the inside:

So deep, so fast, and so perfect… look at that pool coping.

While we were there, we hooked up with Tito from Team Pain…

He cooked up some of the best ribs I’ve ever had, and he brought us to a backyard bowl jam that was full of some of the best skating I’ve seen in years… real bowl heads just killing it:

What you’re seeing here is a back disaster at 1,000,000 mies an hour… the locals (and pro rider Kyle Berard) destroyed this place until we got rained out.

We’re about to head out to the Surf Expo now… the beer is flowing. I’ll keep you up to date. Stay tuned for part two.