After driving 23 hours through desolate plains and a tornado, we finally arrived at my friend Natalie's house in Phoenix, Arizona. She has been kind enough to let 5 rowdy boys crash on her floor for a week, and also kind enough to hustle all of our laundry money in a dice game she introduced us to (see picture proof below). I'm not sure if you can wholeheartedly declare her the winner, (seeing as-... smelling as the raging stench permeating from the piles of dirty clothes isn't much of a prize) but she has won this battle. We skated our way to Cowtown in Phoenix which is where we found a lovely little kinked ledge. Michael Nolan and Derek Leroy did boardslide and boardslide fakie respectively. We ran into my other friend Big Burt at Deck Park. He was so busy stacking clips of his skilled friends that he didn't even notice some of the local civilians taking interest. After that, Natalie insisted on skating in the rain, with an umbrella, but once the rain cleared she got serious and embarked upon her usual trail of casual transition destruction. I really can't thank Natalie enough for making this trip possible!
-Jake
