Funky Skate Park in Franklinton, Ohio

Just outside of Columbus I stumbled upon a flow course skate park.  It was prettybeat up and noone was there, maybe because of the cold and drizzling rain.

San Francisco!

  It's all thanks to family... Our very life, who we are, and where we are going.

    I found these flowers walking around the streets of San Francisco.

Potrero del Sol/La Raza Skatepark 

    This is what the skate park in San Francisco looks like.  I asked at the Haight St. skate shop and they said this was the only one worth going to.  I met a cool kid named to shay for lack of better spelling.  The top level had bowls, the middle level street and a little half bowl, then big quarter pipe (in photo).  

3 little bowls connected to big bowl.  I'm the white boy with his shirt off.  Notice sweet graffiti in bowl.

My thanks to Master Photographer Bubble D.

THis little bowl atop the quarter-pipe entertained the little ones immensely.

MPBD liked this.

Oh, and I found another friendly froed person while out for breakfast.  She could barely stop laughing at how random the whole thing was.  But her hair was so amazing, I could not let it pass.  We ran to get Thai food that night, a tasty treat easily found in the city.  The streets here are crazy steep, and one Lombard St. is like a slalom course down this one hill.  This city is beautiful and has really good water!  A big bonus when you are thirsty from running around and skating.  

Now is the Time

  Yesterday, I got to skate Cactus Wren, Hayley Hendricks, and West Flamingo/Kenny Guinn skate parks.

Cactus Wren

This place was very nice.  The concrete was extra slick.  Wooden and metal ramps, fairly small.  Met Cory there, who used to be sponsored(15 yrs. old).
Hayley Hendricks
This park was full of young kids swearing.  It was the same as Desert Breeze, only it did not have the vert and bowls.  Fun street skating and good view of mtns.

Durango Hills

    Durango Hills is a great park in the northern part of town.  There were some bikers there and I met a kid named Antwon and his cool mama Brandy.  She saw me bite the dust and we laughed about it.  I went up for a rock on a big wall and my truck just barely got over the coping.  As my momentum carried me back down, the board stayed and I fell to the bottom onto my butt.  Then the board almost rolled into my head.  I am still feeling that one.  Now I am off to Desert Breeze for a farewell skate with Natasha.
http://hardcoreskateparks.com/  This is a great site with videos on building skate parks.