johnny romano

I've wanted to attend this since its inception 17 years ago

the bowl jam footage always struck me as epic from previous years. 2013  2012  2011  2010

alex midler slapping into a back tailslide

chany blasting the hip frontside

chany & wes

Charlie Thomas tailgrab nosegrind out of the mini ramp vert wall

Charlie & I had a chance to catch up

Cody Lockwood  - fsa - stealing flashes helped

evan smith had some sick combos

Ishod back lipslide

madars apse back tailslide - always nice to see the street kids hold their own in the bowl

Galveston ripper Zach Castillo - saran wrap body jar 2nd place

Zach had stylish Smith grinds through the corner down pat.

Wes Kremer trademark frontside flip

Tristan Funkhouser - lien air

Tristan - foot plant fakie off the wall.

Man of the hour - Raney Beres off the hip to back lip

Raney - front boardslide

one of the winning moves - INDY tug off the wall - wearing VANS/how appropriate

Raney about to drop in while Brian Schaefer comments

Raney - huge crossbone over the hip

Alex Midler - releasing a crailslide

backside drifter with Ishod Wair

Malcolm Watson 3flip noseslide

Malcolm & Charlie

Nyjah Huston - you call it

Cody Lockwood - frontside 360 over the bar

MVP of the day - Ryan Thompson-ollie over to Smith

Nyjah on the last best trick event of the day.

Frankie Heck bs 180 to switch crooks

Kechaud Johnson made a kickflip up the 6 stair

Chris Cole, Mikey Taylor, Ernie Torres, Karl Watson & one stoked mom

was stoked to see COLD WAR in its entirety

Schaefer introduces Jamie before the Cold War premiere

Bowl Jam
     1. Raney Beres 2. Zach Castillo 3. Tristan Funkhouser 4. Cody Lockwood 5. Evan Smith
    Honorable Mentions: Wes Kremer, Alex Midler, Madars Apse, Andrew Wallace

A-frame Best Trick
    1.Nyjah Huston 2. Ryan Thompson 3. Chris Cole 4. Jonathan Bastian 5. Zion Wright
    Honorable Mentions: Madars Apse, Felipse Gustavo, Zack Godlewski

Zumiez Best Trick
    1. Nyjah Huston 2. Ryan Thompson 3. Chris Cole 4. Zion Wright 5. Justin Vinson
    Honorable Mentions: Frankie Heck, Christian Dufrene

points south

after Hairball, I slept a few hours with ears ringing and got up before dawn and hit the road south

stopped in Wichita for lunch at Garden Grille where they were introducing a new lunch buffet

I nearly lost it when I learned of the All You Can Eat mac & cheese plus pizza!

met longtime family friend Julie O outside Austin for breakfast

Whitley met me at Casa De Luz and sure enough, Wayo Sr came in for dinner!

BARTON Springs was closed for several weeks due to this FLOOD.

the flooding swept away the famous diving board / I learned it will be replaced

see you soon diving board

I wasn't sure if I'd get in......

but I went for it

the Barton Springs Rd bridge over Barton Springs creek

caught the toy train coming out of the tunnel on the walk back to Casa

met Dayn for a late lunch at Casa de Luz and took off for San Antonio

always a fine organic meal at Casa de Luz

I decided I would do the drive to San Antonio so I could see Filmage in the theater

It didn't make the main marque at the Alamo Drafthouse

but was prominently displayed at the ticket counter

theater 9 holds 104 and it sold out

glad I was there early to secure a TICKET - trailer here. it's amazing!

was up early and grabbed an expensive juice

walked back to Vegeria for the breakfast bar

one trip through - made the most of it

stopped by Emiko's mom's Japanese grocery in San Antonio before driving on to Houston