Monday – Early AM. Heading to the Oregon coast.

See our revised Tour Schedule Here.

It’s Day two of the Grain Spreading the Wood Tour – though it feels more like four days. And for good reason. After a 24-hour travel day started at 2:45 in the morning, we spent the next 20-hour day getting our show on the road from our starting point in Portland Oregon.

The crate of all crates arrived with only minor damage, but all was well inside so Matt and Brad camped out in the DHL warehouse for a couple of hours to unpack and break it down. Our first thanks go out to Trish and the whole DHL crew from Boston to Portland, they were great to us.

Soon Mike and Greg rolled up in our biggest environmental compromise to date; a giant, gaudy RV from some rental place. We had scoured Craigslist and Ebay for some cool, biodiesel camper or bus that we could buy for the two-week blast down the PCH. We actually found something we thought would do, only to have it sold out from under us three days before the trip started. So if you see the ugliest camper in the world with wood boards strapped to the roof, it can only be us. We’re on the lookout for something more permanent for our next trip out here.

We had a good, long visit with the guys at Gorge Performance in Portland. They have a great little cluster of rustic shacks and buildings in their own little back-alley, definitely our kind of place. Matt showed us around, we met a bunch of their customers, showed our boards and had a great time. Nice people and we are really looking forward to working with them. You’ll be able to pick up our Home Grown Kits there as soon as we put their order together. We got some advice on surf spots and headed out for US Outdoor Store in the center of the city, which is an adventure in itself in the camper.

So now, we hurtle through dim morning light to the rocky rain-bound coast… should feel like home…