Mike " Darkness " Barnes Checks In With F54

F54's Mike Barnes, or " Darkness " has checked in with us to tell us what he has been up since his trip out here to California. Sounds like he had a hell of a summer, as darkness always does. He sent some photos along with his story. You will laugh your ass off. Enjoy !!!

Hey Todd, Ted and Lippy ! Yeah i am back in florida got hurt a few weeks ago along my travels to the northwest, and now I actually have a minute on the computer ha ha! But yeah, it started like most trips for me absolutely  confused, where am i gonna stay, who's picking me up from the airport, all that good stuff right ? But luckily most my friends from Bacon Skateboards live right there in Portland so next thing I know i am right off the plane straight to a 12ft.deep bowl with like some 30ft.full pipe(pier park) not your typical leg warmer spot but we had a blast Next couple days just explored some more killer spots, till the trisect. The trisect is supposed to be a three day event (3 contest 3 days) but do to some permits or what not, the first one was cancelled (which would have been the best one), so now being the bi-fecta we skated we partied and like most lame contests, but still found good-times 4 sure! So after all the hoopla it was back to straight up concrete mission I would start naming parks, but there was just to many and no matter how rad they were, the only name that matters is BURNSIDE !! yup u heard me mouth f%#%ing ! Burnside the first and still the best built, by the skaters & shredded by the skaters that started it naturally. So me, being the lurker I am, thats were I spent most my time under the bridge! On any given day some of the best skaters in the world were rollin thru. Also just the widest variety off skaters I ever seen. Soooo sick! I even ran into my FL homie Timmy Knuth at the park. I guess he was doing the Dew or something (Dew Tour) so ripped with the ol'boy for a bit. It was cool to see him out of his element and still holding it down. Now this was about the time of the trip when I started sleeping in the Bacon warehouse, which was pretty sweet . After another 2 weeks of exploring the Great Gnar Wes, and with a hip the size of a volleyball ( that is my injury, still don't know what I did ) and an empty wallet it was time to head home to the hot humid swamps of Florida. But shit, till next time thanx Oregon for the memories and thank u Todd, Ted and everyone at the Factor 54 family for helping make that dream trip possible ! !