Had a super long day of work stuck inside a small conference room with no windows. Ugh. After work I walked about a mile with my coworker past the Cardinals stadium (I don’t even know the name and I walked by it) and had some banging catfish enchiladas and jumbalaya for dinner.

The food and bread pudding for dessert was amazing.

After that I walked around and saw the arch. It’s weird looking east at the “Gateway to the west”. Looking to the west is the old courthouse:

It’s pretty cool that the horses and stage coach are still there waiting for someone. After all this I went up to my room, dropped off the laptop, grabbed the skateboard and went right to hitting the streets. I went the other way from the hotel this time. I didn’t have the same energy as last night though and my knee was hurting a bit making the ollies up curbs not as fun as the night before. I found the ledge I had really wanted to skate. One boardslide, one bailed front board and one crooks later security came out. Bye. I ended up at another plaza that had tons and tons of stuff. So many granite ledges and none of them were waxed. I don’t get it. Made me think it was a high bust factor so I didn’t stay too long. I didn’t do anything worth a crap anyways. I really wasn’t able to skate well. My knee felt really swollen, I was exhausted and it’s weird skating solo in a city you don’t know much about. Check out this hubba thats in the plaza though.

I wanted to try nosesliding it, but having a bum knee is a great excuse to not try stuff. The kink at the end would have messed me up I’m sure. It wasn’t tall to get on. And if you wanted you could actually grind the flat after the kink all the way out past the next set of stairs.

I ended up at this ledge spot. The ledge is kinda sticky, but low and the brick area is super fun to bail flip tricks. Tonight there was actually a few people around so it wasn’t as creepy. I skated it for awhile. I thought it would be a bust, but security came out and one point, waved, checked something and went back in. Awesome! I skated here for awhile. Once again, I was really feeling out of my element, but I managed some things for me. Got a run of back 50, back 180 on flat, fakie flip on flat, halfcab flip on flat. It’s cool because that way is downhill and you don’t have to push at all. I also got a line of back 50, kickflip on flat, 360 flip on flat (with another 5 point landing). I struggled at fakie bigflips again. Got a run of f/s halfcab flip then front tail (horrible). Other tricks I got on the ledge were back noseslide, back crooks, halfcab noseslide, front 50 and a rare (and horribly done) kickflip back 50. Hyped on finding a spot I can skate without too much trouble other then the occasional rapper trying to sell me a cd or weed.

This spot again. The two times I tried it before I didn’t get up the 3 stair and security would be out by the time I got my board. Since my knee has been hurting ollies have been hard. This time though, I won. First t ollie up ollie up ollie off to quick powerslide before rolling off the curb because a big SUV was driving by. I know it’s three basic ollies but it made my night. I cruised and looked at a few other spots, but didn’t really skate anymore. Saw a sick marble ledge from the other night I wanted to skate a bit, but the prostitutes hanging out at it were a bit much for me. Ended up being a fun night. Skating a city is the bomb. You get to really see the city.