Last Tuesday, I left of the summer tour with Boarders For Christ. We will be traveling around the country putting on skateboarding demos and spreading the Word. We had our first demo in Steamboat Springs, CO and got to spend some great time with a family down there. They run this skateboarding ministry called Christ For Life Sk8 Church and have a very cool little community of youth there. Everything was running great all the way down there until we hit Texas. Our next stop was Kerrville, TX and like the saying goes “Everything is bigger in Texas”, everything was bigger. All of our problems escalated with in the first 50 miles of Texas. We just had purchased a new van for this year to tour in, but quickly found out that just because something is new doesn’t mean it is fine a dandy. We had our van overheat in Northern Texas the moment we got in to Texas which was caused by a water pump failure. We ended up getting stranded in Texas for the night, and what was supposed to be a 13 hour drive from Colorado to Kerrville, TX turned into two 10 hour drives with out air conditioning in 100+ degree weather. We finally got into Kerrville safely and that is when we realized that Texas is pretty awesome. Texas completely redeemed itself and we were blessed to stay with a family in Kerrville. Here are photos from the first week of tour:
The Grand Tetons
At the top of the Teton Pass
METAL!
Clouds on the plains of Colorado
Steamboat, CO Sk8 Church
Sk8 Church
There was this fox at this skatepark. Pretty cool.
We were so stoked to be in Texas. Little did we know that trouble awaits us.
Johnny kept his spirits high when we were stranded.
We went to the Alamo in San Antonio, TX
San Antonio
San Antonio
We started playing a new game where we take photos of tourists getting their photo taken
Sham got a picture with a random lady
Johnny walks with his shirt open
Sham needed a break
Demo shots
Corey says it is a go!
Johnny makes kids happy
Applause
Tyler gettin’ that hana
So far, tour has been great.
Inspiration: Blair Alley
Stay gold,
-Steve
Very cool-
What trouble awaited you?
Looks like a lot of fun, great experience. Seeing the country, hit all the landmarks you can, never know when you will get back.
GEt your final posted!!!!!