Our Portland hosts, Al Partanan and his lady! Al drives a Volvo which is very safe, but he skates like he drives a Mustang!

...then on our drive north to Seattle, this wheel decided to blow out on me at 70mph. That was fun.

Beanhead to the rescue, not the fat State Trooper laughing at our misforture.

Delridge park, Seattle, that last bit of concrete of our 7 day jaunt into the American Northwest. Dainton having a spy over what street lines he's gonna throw down!

Jake got busy as as the park started to fill up with kids coming out of school. It's worth mentioning that this was the first park all week where we saw more than 6 people the entire time we were there.

Time to pack them bags for the epic long flight home.

Don’t fly US Airways as they make you fly the plane yourself - not my favourite Airline for sure!

As we have been eating nothing but junk food we opted for the heathly treats - some fearsome melon for Marc.

A trip to Burnside is a must. With stories of locals chasing visiting skaters out, we went in slow...

...where we met up with Creature's own Al Partanan. Mega points if you know who this guy is on the right!

Then it was almost by chance we got to skate Windells Skatecamp - this place was epic, utter nuts.

As the sun dropped, Bryce Kanights turned up with his Lifeblood team and some lights and a geni.

Any good night must be ended the Portland way...Al's favouite bar.

We spent another night in Newport as our next spot, Lincoln City, was on the mix. Plus Jake liked the sunny version of his hometown! There's no photos of Lincoln City as I was having way to much fun to remember to take any - one good point was running into the guy in the next photo...

Mark "Red" Scott - founder or Dreamlands Skateparks, the best skatepark builders in the world! We were at Lincoln City skating and he invited us back to his house where he has a 13ft vert concrete bowl.

Red's bowl is pretty damn mental...

The next morning we hit Tigard for a really early am skate.

Beanhead got himself a new pet.

After Tigard we met up with some of the Lifeblood guys that took us to the latest portland DIY spot at Brooklyn street. It's small but will claim you all the same.

Those guys at Lifeblood know their history and how to think outside the box. Their HQ is right by Brooklyn Street.

Waking up in the states and its as wet as it is at home sucks...southward bound the weather is better down there I'm told! Jake wanted to slappy that curb so much.

Coffee, donuts, WiFi...wet mornings suck.

Driving south the weather turns in our favor. Your fiest park under bridge, with some inbred locals.

Newport, Oregon, in the Fog. Epic to wake up in a Newport without chavs.

Epic park 3, Walport, the "time trials" spot from Beauty and the Beast! 9.9seconds the new record, haha

Bye bye London...

We had some small planes to travel over to The States - flying for over 21 hours offically sucks!

Landing in a wet and windy Philly...not the best start!

Things got better when we landed in Seattle after one hellride of a plane journey. Our first mission was to get the ferry to Orcas Island - Jake was stoked.

This is what the best park in the world looks like. If you have not been here, its one of the "musts" in life.

You know that Lee was filming everything! He is a 24hr filming machine. Every angle covered!

A day of shredding can take it outta a fella - Beanhead was dead tired, time to get the last ferry back...

Straight through the door and pretty much the first hammer of the Mount Hawke demo, Anthony Schultz banged out a couple of these alley oop transfers before he'd even had is morning coffee.

Tommy Sandoval skates anything and everything. This guy is a machine and a demo unto himself.

In the midst of a dizzying demo, the ever professional Mr. Thomas took time out to session this ledge for our viewing pleasure.

This is just one of the countless hammers which Tommy treated the Truro locals to. Frontside halfcab flip just before he laid down a few session enders.

Midway through the Truro demo and Garrett started of the Pier 7 session with a Nollie frontside noseslide.

Jamie made the Truo Hubba's a little more friendly with some wax.

After watching Tommy and Dane shut Truro's stairs down, Nick headed over to the more manageable area of the Plaza for quick front blunt.

Jack Curtin - Backside smith 180 out. Truro.

The first spot of our night mission in Newquay town centre and again we were saved by the trusty candle.

Man on a mission...