Oregon Road Trip Stories. Just because we live Oregon doesn’ mean we can’t road trip in Oregon. Everyone else gets to write about it, so why not us? Shawn Fendick had been planning a trip for some time now. A guys trip. That means no “wives, scrappers (kids) or non-skaters” in his words. Klamath Falls was picked as the destination. Shawn had originally wanted to rent a mobile home so we could get a keg and keep it on tap next to the park. Since we had people from different parts of the country joining us (yay! road trip) and leaving us on different days, the mobile home fell through, but the keg didn’t. What follows are some details and a lot of pictures spread out over four days, culminating in a live appearance by legendary long playing but sporadic recording punk rockers, the Dickies!
Klammath Falls Road Trip: Aumsville Detour Day 1 8/13/04
Day 1: On Friday the 13th we all left work and converged in Aumsville Or for a send off. Joining us was Steve Grover, who couldn’t make the whole trip because he lost his balls, I mean didn’t have a job. In our minds, that meant he sure as hell could have gone, but what did we know? Also present was Cal Skate emissary and patron of the arts Paul Fujita. Ironically, he couldn’t go because he had a job. Between Paul and Grover, we figured that their excuses cancelled each other out so that they could both go, but they weren’t hearing it. Nate Frank came in tow with Grover, and fun was had by all, especially the visitors from California and the locals. As it sometimes happens in Aumsville, Jeff Taylor came out of the woods like Bigfoot and began to terrorize the skate park with Bigfoot sized shenanigans on the transitions. A big 4×4 Suburban drove by and a bunch of rednecks yelled out “Skate or Die!” They must have been fans of the videogame. At 9:00 pm we hit the road for Klamath Falls and arrived about two in the morning, delusional and hallucinating, at the strip mall of camp sites, KOA. Waiting for us were about 50 of Shawn’s friends, all of who had ridiculous nicknames, and none of them whose names I was able to remember. Oh yeah, and the keg was tapped.
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