Baltimore
Last week a small crew of us set out to Baltimore on a trip for Carhartt WIP. It was Max, Drew, Mecca, and Enzo with Coots shooting the photos and myself filming. I’ve gotten to travel a lot of different ways and for a lot of different reasons. I’ve found that being on a skate trip is one of the best ways to really see a city, because the objective is actually to explore. We were staying in a hotel downtown near the harbor, we woke up early to drive around Baltimore (one day in DC) and skate spots. When the sun went down we parked the van back at the hotel to venture out on foot for food, beer, and whatever other debauchery we could get into. For me this is an easy schedule to be on… wake up and drink a heinous hotel bean, log footage, link in the van, get a top notch bean, skate spots all day, get dinner, drink beer, pass out, repeat the next day. I think as these types of trips go, 4 days is not quite enough. Usually by day 2 everyone is at least sore if not hurt, and if you’re Max then day 2 is just a continuation of everyday life; being sore, hurt, and still skating. Once you start spending time at spots, days can go by really fast. One quick clip can turn into a day long soul crusher at any moment, or a neighbor might turn on their garden hose, unknowingly ruining a couple hours of figuring out how to skate a spot. After 4 days I feel like there is so much more to do. We always say “yeah we gonna come back here and check these spots again” … but thats been said pretty much every time I’ve left any place ever and time keeps moving forward. I hope we do get to go back to someday, because there is a lot of unfinished business to attend to. For now here is a photo recap:
