Skateistan Blog

     Today, my Social Studies class is going on another of these dumb adventures. We are going to AFGHANISTAN! Probably John's worst idea yet. Anyway, here we go.

     It is our first day here, and the worst part really is the weather! It's very hot, and there isn't that much water. John decided that we would be helping some kids with skateboards, so I guess that's pretty cool.

     

1.      Today we are going to go to the old palace. It's totally wrecked. There are still soldiers here for some reason, though. We asked them and they actually LET us SKATE THERE!!! They even took a picture of me with an AK-47! When we get back, I'll help build some ramps at the new location. Luckily, I brought a sleeping bag when they said we'd be sleeping on the ground! 

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Nothing ever happens

Nothing interesting ever seems to happen. Life needs more explosions.

Day 6: HOMECOMING!

View Day 3: HOMECOMING! in a larger map      Today was homecoming. We all got to see our families, rest, and best of all, there was cake! Also, I wore my roosevelt shirt. As you can see, I have great school spirit... for the wrong school!!

Larger Voices Calling: Dragons, Dreamers, And Doers Day 5-Los Alamos...Drum Canyon...Santa Rosa Road...Buelton

View Larger Voices Calling: Dragons, Dreamers, And Doers Day 5-Los Alamos...Drum Canyon...Santa Rosa Road...Buelton in a larger map      Today was the drum canyon ride; the 2nd hardest ride of the trip. I am happy to say that we all survived. Also, today we took a break at a vineyard, and we were in speed groups again. I guess that's pretty much all that happened today. We were driven to Los Alamos, and we ended at Flying Flags. I remember there was first a big hill, then we went down the big hill, then we biked in the hilly flat stretch. For dinner, we had chile. Or it might have just been soup (I cant remember!). The campfire was extra long that night.

Larger Voices Calling: Dragons, Dreamers, and Doers Day 4-Dunn...Ballard canyon...Buelton

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     Today was one of the boring days. We didn't do much but ride today. It was flat and long. It was hot but not as hot as on wednesday. There was no breeze, either. We were all ready to be done. I wanted to go home and see my dog, and my family was flying in from Colorado, so I wanted to see them too. At least the campsite tonight has a shower, though. This was the day that nothing at all happened at all. We got started at a baseball park at Dunn, and we biked to Flying Flags campground. We didn't stop, we didn't take any breaks, we just rode.

Larger Voices Calling: Dragons, Dreamers, And Doers Day 3-Nojoqui...Solvang...Los olivos...Dunn

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     Today was the day that we rode the nice flat stretch at a leisurely pace, stopping at a few shops along the way. It was also very hot. We were in speed groups this time, instead of families. It was a very short ride. The first shop was the apple farm; "apple lane farms", and the second was a shop in Los Olivos. One of the funniest memories that I have from there was when my friend tried an Icee that he found in the trash, and said "Tastes less like blue-raspberry, and more like... 'putrid purple'"

Larger Voices Calling: Dragons, Dreamers, And Doers Day 2-Refugio...El Capitan

View Day 2 in a larger map      The first thing I noticed when I was riding was that Gretchen's dad has a REALLY big driveway. After the large driveway, there was a downhill. Then there was more downhill. We stopped at the bottom to eat our lunches, then set off again on the flat stretch to camp. After arriving, we set up camp, and hung out for a while. That was When Brad's porta-potty experience happened. Brad ate an orange, left the peels, and went to the bathroom. Victor came and told us to pick up the peels, and told us we could beat up brad later. After having picked up the peels, we were poised to throw them at Brad when he came out of the porta potty, but he never did. He stayed in there. It was then that we began to ROCK the porta-potty. everyone else had gone but me and Brian. Brian told me to rock it from the back, and he would rock it from the front. I went around the back, and Brian started to rock it, but THEN, Lili came, and started telling Brian off, while she was doing that, I managed to sneak around and go into one of the porta-potties to hide (it smelled awful). Quite an interesting day (i think Brian probably deserved it).

Larger Voices Calling: Dragons, Dreamers, and Doers Day 1-The Dragon's Spine

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     The first thing that I remember about today was when I arrived at the mission, and realized that something seemed off. I asked around, and eventually found out that I was an hour late. I was a bit upset, but i got on to my bus, bus number 1, and headed off to whatever hills awaited me. Right when I started off, I was faced with a 12-mile uphill. After an hour or 2, it started to level out, and we even saw a small downhill! It was a (very) small downhill. All that remained after that was whatever huge uphill was around the next corner. I remember being bike partners with Cooper, and being in Wren's family. I rested at the top awhile with Bradley, and gave him some of my frozen gatorade. I was looking forward to the big downhill, and I was not disappointed until I saw the driveway. The driveway itself must have been a quarter mile, and it was straight uphill!!!

CAKE

cake is good.

Testing, Testing

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