blogging is weird when yer having a shitty week. are ya just supposed to keep on like normal, or blather on why this&that is sucking ?? dunno. but, i managed to get out of the flat-spin, and pull back on the stick before i hit the deck, so i reckon things are good. just got back from an annual convention at the dells. i bring the road bike for sure, because the roads in sauk county west of the dells are some of the sweetest around, IMHO. got in killer rides when i got to town, and at dawn every day. bonus, i camped at mirror lake and last nite i was the only guy in the whole place. double bonus, a kwik lap at standing rocks on the way home got me full on back into redemption-mode.
triple bonus. i skated this place
for a little while sunday evening, and on monday had a chance to talk with the dreamland skatepark guy for a spell also, as i snuck back over there on the lunch break. he had just arrived from portland to do a little fix on the place. that was supercool to meet up with the guy like that at the park - just me&him there, and he wasn't in any big hurry or anything, so we talked about concrete skateparks over the past 30 years !! from the earliest junk-parks in the 70's ( did ya know there was one such park behind the roller-skate place near the shevagas race-venue ?? - i will wager it is still there, just buried under dirt ) to legends like marina del ray, and the turf ( also rumoured to still exist buried in sand and covered in a metal building in milwaukee - this is one of the best parks built during skating's 80's heyday and could hold it's own against any park up to today, constructed by the same guys that did new jersey's cherry hill park - do you know where it is ?? ) - to modern uberparks like louisville and black pearl in the caymans - and finally the modern little mini-super-parks like they have there in lake delton. it was awesome, and i think he was digging the unlikelyhood of finding a 49 y/o bald guy in the middle of bumfook WI to talk this stuff stuff with, too.
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skateboarding is a crime
park is that? When I used to be cool I routinely visited my buddy in Bend OR and they have so many sick concrete parks. I would like to hit up this since I won't be going back soon...once my old man knee heals up that is.
mike: that is a sweet little park by dreamland in lake delton ( wisconsin dells ). it is just up the street from the kalahari, maybe 1/2 mile or less north of the interstate.
there is also a brand new dreamland concrete park in weston, the suburb of wausau.
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