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Skate nomad Rick Ashley and his Alaska
to Florida expedition model.
Rick Ashley
The idea of the skateboard as a
convenient mode of modern trans-
portation is widely touted and well-
tested. But how many of us routine-
ly skate across town, let alone city to
city, or how about from one side of the
country to the next?
When the economy of Fairbanks,
Alaska, fell apart recently, one resi-
dent, Rick Ashley, decided to take off
and travel around the lower 48 states.
His mode of transportation for a trek
from the northernmost point of the
American highway system in Fair-
banks to the southernmost tip in Key
West, Florida-a trusty skateboard
and a quick thumb. We heard of
Rick's unusual journey when he cal-
led us from a phone booth as he was
getting ready to cross the Golden
Gate Bridge into S.F
"I'm not going for a world record
or doing this for charity." Rick told KT
after meeting him at the Dish. "If I
was going to do the entire trip on a
skateboard I'd call up Guinness. It's
really just to help me out when I'm
going too slow or when I feel like hav-
ing some fun. When the weather is
bad or the roads are bad, I hitchhike
or walk. I'm keeping a journal of how
many miles I'm riding the skate-
board. By the time I get there I hope
I'll have logged at least 200 miles."
Rick first started skating in North
Carolina in 1965. He recalls a steep
hill with a drainage lip at the bottom
where he and his friends skated on
homemade boards. "When you hit
the bottom going full-bore, it would
throw you up and you'd fly about 15
feet over a ravine and into some sap-
lings. You'd grab one of those and
they'd let you down kind of easy. If
you missed them, well.
One day, late in getting some-
where, Rick noticed a skater shoot by
and out of sight. "I realized / could
make good time on one, so decided
to buy a decent board and see if I
could still ride."
After a little practice to regain his
skating skills he was ready to push
off down the west coast. "My best
ride so far was a five mile slope com-
ing out of Ports, Washington. Usual-
ly I push a couple of miles and then
it's time to stop and rest or hitch. The
biggest use for the skateboard has
been getting through cities. If I want
to get into a city instead of skirting
around it, I can use my board.
Rick's mode of transportation, mix-
ed with his bedroll and a backpack
filled with 80 pounds of belongings,
is not without drawbacks. In fact, the
combination can get outright hairy.
"My major problem is stopping. I'm
going to try and get somebody to
design a hook-type drag unit, like
they use on dogsleds-a snap-on
drag wheel so I can step down on it
and stop. The only two times I've got
ten hurt was after coming out of bars
in the dark. One time I got out onto
what looked like a good asphalt street
and found my trucks hanging up on
a crack. The other time I suddenly hit
a dirt road instead of asphalt. When
you have to stop so suddenly, that 80
pounds wants to keep moving."
Considering that skateboards are
thought to be on the wrong side of the
law and hitchhiking is also frowned
upon in many communities, we ask-
ed if Rick has had any legal problems
on the road. "Surprisingly I haven't
bumped shoulders with the law at all.
A few of them have gone by, and I
always smile and wave at them. They
smile and wave back. I guess they "
can't believe I'm on the road with a
skateboard and a backpack. I'll prob
ably get busted cutting across the
lower-48 somewhere in a non-
pedestrian area. I can't let that get in
my way, though, it would just be a
waste of time.
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