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pavedwave
Joined: 22 Oct 2007
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Location: seattle wa usa
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fuzzydeer
Joined: 01 Sep 2008
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Yay! I love laura!
I bought her a board for her trip, I pray to god it gets there!
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skatersjourney
Joined: 10 Sep 2008
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Location: Plymouth, UK
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Hi guys!
Sorry, I only just discovered this thread as I've had no time at all since getting on the road to get online properly. Thanks so much for featuring it here, it's an honour to get a mention 
The board did indeed arrive Paul, for which I'm grateful beyond words. Thank you for such a wonderful gift.
Here's a few excerpts from my blog, to give you a taste of this trip, which you can read in full at: http://www.northseaskate.co.uk
| Quote: | | Then the rain happened - cold wet mountain rain, and I just about survived by thinking about warm things and nice things and...flowers...Hell no, I didn't !!! I swore and cursed and ranted and cried and pushed and walked and struggled until on one hill, a short cut road to Balmoral, I had what I believe to be a hypo and really started tripping out. There were nice hills though, real beauties - sweeping long hills that were nicely paved and easy to get out of trouble on. |
| Quote: | | Then it was out to see the jets. Oh yes. Oh yes oh yes. I entered a hangar and there must have been around 8 Tornadoes sat, in varying states of repair or readiness. Dan took me down to one at the end, and I leaned my board up against an engineer's tool desk, covered in greasy equipment. He helped me climb up a rickety ladder to the air intake of the plane, whereupon I was instructed to swing myself onto the fuselage and clamber across the top of it, until I was carefully helped into the pilot's seat. Oh yes oh yes oh yes. |
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Headwinds, pain, madness, joy, tears, bliss, excess, sugar breaks, water breaks, dragging the board, dragging myself, anything just to get me up the hill. 5 miles of up hill past Dale's Voe, and I was done. The views were amazing, which sort of made the situation a bit twisted. Some of the downhills afterwards, down to sea level, were the most amazing hills I'd skated so far in the trip, and I think the adrenaline was the only thing that got me back up the other side in some cases. |
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wafflesole
Joined: 15 Apr 2008
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| Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2009 2:20 pm Post subject: |
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| WHOOOP! Go laura! |
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Belegnole
Joined: 23 Jul 2008
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Location: Appleton, Wisconsin
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Way to go Laura!
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