This one takes us back. But not to the very beginning (more on that later!).
Back in 2005 a certain Adam Colton and 3 friends skated the 3000miles (4800km) across the USA to raise money for The East Coast Round Wall Foundation. The trip took 2 and a half months and not only opened many of our eyes to distance skating but also to Loaded longboards and LongboardLarry who they met on the trip and sorted out with push boards.
Longboard Larry (LBL) a custom longboard manufacturer was a sponsor of my Skate USA trip by accident. I met Larry by luck when our bus broke down in Oregon and Scott from thelongboardstore.com set us up to stay with Larry while the bus was being fixed. From that moment a friendship and sponsorship was born. We gave up the current decks we were riding and LBL built us custom decks for the trip right then and there. He even became our press person for our trip and flew all the way to VA to join us at the welcome home celebration.
Not much exists online about the trip but the journey was featured in Freshpaved magazine and Adam has pictures on his website www.whoisadamcolton.com You can also look at more pictures on Adam’s Flickr album.
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