Thrasher Magazine February 1997 — Page 31
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            THE ADVENTURES OF
DICK
KER
NORM AND DIG
STORY AND PHOTOS BY NOAH MARTINEAU
OUTIUS RE
For the last five weeks,
I've was travelling with a
swimming pool that was
car. My name is Norm. It was very fun.
We started off in Santa
Cruz, California...
small town in Arizona
1. I have
just boarded a bus
in the small town of
Abingdon, Virginia, It's early in
we got to ride an empty the morning. For the next three
guy named Dick in his right next to the ocean. days and nights, I'll be riding on
Our next stop was a buses just like this one. When I'm
called Jerome. We done, I'll be in Portland, Oregon
stayed with a friend I'm looking forward to getting
used to be a mining there. There's an old man
has a mini half-pipe in his back. There's nothing really to sitting next to me and he's
Our first stop was
San Luis Obispo,
California, where our friend of my dad's. Jerome
Russ runs his skateboard com-
pany. We stayed with a guy who
yard. Russ also has a mini
half-pipe. I guess those
guys like mini half-pipes.
So, basically, in San
Luis Obispo we played
on mini half-pipes for a
couple of days. Dick's good at
riding mini half-pipes. So is Russ.
On our last day in San Luis Obispo,
town. It was nice there.
ride skateboards on, but
we had a good time. My dad's snoring. It's raining
friend's house was really neat.
We slept in an airplane that he
turned into a motor home. In the
morning, Dick said that a ghost had
pushed him up out of bed in the
middle of the night. Maybe it was
the ghost of a miner who died near
outside.
there. I don't know.
We stayed in Jerome for two
nights and one day. We played music
with my dad's friend's girlfriend and ate
yummy food she made.
Clockwise from above: Tex
Roemer backside 180°s over a
garbage can at the squatting
skatepark in San Antonio, Texas.
Craig Johnson still rips hard! Frontside
invert in Dallas, Texas.
In case you didn't read the story, this is
what's going on here: Steve-O lights his hair on fire,
and Richard Kirby blows a fireball off of his head.
CP is 35 and has been ripping New Mexico's biggest
ditch for years. Bert of Big Bear.
2. It's time now for the bus I'm riding on to stop in
Knoxville, Tennessee, for lunch. The old man next
to me has just woken up and is scratching
his head. It's still raining outside.