THE WOOZY LIFE

Road trips are awesome. It’s been awhile since I’ve been on one so when my homie Annie Sullivan invited me to go on a Sector 9 road trip up the California coast, I was pumped. Summer road trip? Hell yeah…! The plan was to start from San Diego and hit up surf and skate spots up the state, end destination Santa Cruz. Everyone knows that the most important part of a road trip is your crew. The worst thing in the world is to be stuck in a car with someone you can’t stand. Good thing for me, our crew was radical. I’ve been friends with Annie for awhile now, she was actually the first rider that I worked with at Osiris and is a big reason why we created such a bad ass girls team over the past couple of years. Annie skates but is also a full time college student at Colorado University in Boulder and is majoring in Marketing and Advertising. There aren’t many people who can balance two things as different as a skateboarding career and college but Annie somehow manages it. And trust me, skateboarding and college are really different…well minus the beer. Annie started working at Sector 9 utilizing her marketing skills while she was home from school this summer so she came up with the idea for this trip. Genius. 2nd to the crew is pro surfer and two time ASP world champion longboarder Jen Smith. Jen just came off of her 2nd world champion title in Biarritz, France so this trip was also a mini victory tour…hollerrr! Jen and Annie grew up surfing and skating together in SD and are quite the dynamic duo…if you are hanging out with them you are basically having ALL the fun.

The third part of our crew was photographer Bri Burkett. Bri is Annie’s friend from Boulder and she is a talented up and coming photographer. As for me, I sat back and enjoyed the ride, with my video camera attached to my hand of course. 6 days, 10 cities, 4 surfboards, 10 skateboards, 1 excursion = 1 “Seriously California” road trip. Bri took tons of photos and I have hours and hours of footage that I will be editing in the next month or so but for now I will recap the trip with a couple of photos from each day.

DAY 1: VENICE & MALIBU

We left San Diego on Sunday morning after loading up the car at Annie’s house and headed north. Our first destination was Venice beach where we skated the boardwalk and checked out the scene. There is a new skatepark being built right on the beach that is supposed to be finished later this year and from the looks of it, it’s going to be awesome. That was actually my first time ever to Venice beach and it was pretty much exactly like in the movies and on TV. Lots of people watching and lots of weirdos. Fun vibe though. After Venice we grabbed a quick lunch at Wahoo’s Fish Tacos and sat in some lovely LA traffic. We finally hit Malibu around afternoon and Jen and Annie got in for a sunset surf. We tested out my new gopro surf cam and it was a success (video footy coming soon)….After the malibu sesh, we headed up to Solvang where we met Bri at her house and crashed for the night. We were beat and Bri greeted us with a midnight pizza fresh out of the oven…YUM. Since Bri wasn’t with us this first day I just snapped a couple of photos on my point and shoot in between filming….

its always organized in the beginning...

annie owning the road

first stop, venice boardwalk

annie and jen playing tourist

sidewalk art

the new venice skatepark (in the background) is gonna be amazing

testing out the gopro surf cam on jen's board

smith & sullivan

a still from the gopro cam