The Crew camped in Kona Skatepark...The Trip...We left from Central Florida en route to Naples friday morning and arrived just in time for opening at 5pm... We were all psyched because none of us had ever been to Naples Skatpark so we skated there for approx. 4-5 hours that first night..(That was pretty rad in itself, considering that the average age of this crew was 42!)
Everyone was killing it in the flow area and the pool..But we eventually called it a night and decided to split.
Later (read:much later-as we got slightly lost on Marco island in the pitch dark!)we parked the RV at the local KOA and had some well earned beers and some dinner then hit the sack for the night so we could skate Naples again saturday morning..
Next Stop was Northport Skatepark which is approximately 80 miles north of Naples..We hit that park for about 2 hours and had alot of fun but our session was cut short when we saw the beginnings of a Christmas parade start to form right where we had the RV parked..The cops were already starting to close the street down so we promptly fled the skatepark and insisted that the cops guide us out before the parade started...We were lucky..but we got out and headed for Sarasota...That was about a half hour drive..
We skated Sarasota for a couple of hours until extreme hunger and the cold got the better of us....So we decided to split and get some food and also discuss how we were going to make it to Jacksonville that night!Check a map its a long way!!
We worked it out to be about 26o miles and decided to just "go for it" and try and get as close to Kona skatepark as possible that night...
Matt(our RV owning,driver) is a seasoned road warrior and insisted in doing the trip in one shot!...We did a bit of "ass hauling" across the state and eventually we rolled into Kona Skatepark about 1.30am and parked the rv in the field about 10 ft from the ramps...
to be continued....
