Bombing Hills 

I love Gerringong but Gerringong doesn't like me

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Nfq5tOYMNX8

Enjoy the Ride, what's the alternative......

In the grand scheme of life we have a beginning, we toddle, we infant, we teen and then we know everything.

How wild is this life. I was 27 a few weeks ago and I blinked a few times and I am 63....how and when did this occur.

I thought that getting old would take a lot longer. 

 BASEMENT SKATE - IT IS OVER

JULY 2024 - The decision was made that Basement Skate is closing and on a cool day in July it was over.

Thank you so much for the memories.

Icons do not last forever....bummer

Where did 7 years go???

Has it been 7 years since I logged in....crikey.

Welcome to the world my grandchildren. At this moment, Oakie is nearly 3 and Lola is 4 months old.

With the right amount of coercion and example these girls, Oakie and Lola will be proficient on skateboards.

Possibly going to happen in the surfside town of Montanita in Ecuador. They leave Australia in May 2024 for the surf coast of Ecuador.

The idea of life is to have a vision, a goal and a reasonable timeframe....chase your dreams or someone will hire to to build theirs.

Henry David Thoreau

I skate the roads because I wished to turn back the clock; to go back to my youth and savour the taste and see if I could learn more of what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die discover that I had not lived. 

I needed to skate for without it was not life, skating is so dear; nor did I wish to practice resignation unless it was quite necessary.

'I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life, to live so sturdily and Spartan-like as to put to rout all that was not life, to cut a broad swath and shave close, to drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms...'

(direct quote from HDT).

Inspired by HDT

Canberra...

A trip to Canberra is never any fun without a skateboard; and the best way to circumnavigate Lake Burley Griffin is the Rayne Fortune.

Along the way it is important to pay homage to Sir Robert Menzies, one of Australia's more influential and well liked Prime Ministers.

Will the real Tony Hawk please step forward

Will the real Tony Hawk step forward*

This is one of those, "you are shitting me" moments to which I say NO!. A vehement NO. Our mate Kanufi is in the Fat Pigeon Hoodie behind a Tony Hawk cutout. This picture has not been cut, clipped, enhanced in any way. This is the real Kanufi.

Kanufi in blue with his Doppelganger in black

Following road resurface Kanufi gives the road the thumbs up