(Intro by Joe Kinder) Dave is now back with us in the USA…WHOOPPIIEEE!!!  For people like me to have my best friend and biggest motivator around is the optimal situation. Good energy for mobbing up on your projects.

So, lets see here…Kid has just killed the notorious REALIZATION!!!  And is steady on the kill for all the hard routes in the areas in which we have visited.  First week back in the U.S, Logan Canyon was in full effect, It has been hot as HELL in SLC we have been limited to select cliffs. Super Tweak has been my goal, old school and black in color.  I have been falling off the top mono shit, WE HATE that mono!!!!  After try 2 Dave fell off the Mono move too.  “DAMN!!”  I thought, this, is how it usually is.   Day two,  I got mad close, but Dave sent at the end of the day…I swear…up to that point, I thought I might have served him…NOOOO WAYYYY though….C’monnn….

Now…we are in Calgary…steady climbing, and getting a good ass beating, Sending has been seldom due to the heinous style.  LOTS of respect to the locals. Lev Pinter especially for taking such good care of us.  We got 2 days left to send our routes…the pressure is ON.  2 days left….stand by.

Now I present you….my man…OUR man….Dave. 

Well, I’ll be damned! It sure is a trip being back here on the North American continent! It sure is great to be kickin' it with my homies, Isaac Caldiero and Joey Kind Kid. It’s really nice to see all the stuff I have been starved off lately! Some obvious things I’ve noticed being lots of English fluttering around, big wide streets, Gangster rap, decent hamburgers, Cheez-its, and wide-open spaces abound.  I have to admit it’s been great; I really enjoy some things here, which don’t exist in Europe! I have been on one hell of a journey the past year, introduced by the Spanish hard livin’, rapidly moving forward into Sarkozy-land, and then an international Flight. The past months particularly have been crazy, full of all kinds of exciting action, adventure, and multi-lingual life stuff. I am quite stunned to realize I blew off doing a blog for over two whole months, and for that I am sorry. Yes, I am slightly ashamed, and Yes, I was definately caught in the grips, but that’s not a surprise to me ... With crags like Ceuse, and intercontinental living changes, It’s hard to extend yourself any further than the current world in front of you. Old-school, Yes again, but there weren’t no got dang Blackberry handhelds, or wi-fi ports to be seen in the Land Before Time (Europe.)  I saw an Iphone, but Josh Lowell was yielding the thing, and it looked liked magic, I just remember staring like an idiot at the little mirror apple symbol thing. Yeah. So. Ever since I left Spain in the beginning of July, it’s been pretty intense. I lived in a camper (a small motor home) and sold my car to the circus. No more EU for six months, and I ain’t scarred.