Here’s a guest post by my man Jason Childers. Enjoy!

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On Friday afternoon, A.J. and I took a little trip eastward to the decidedly rural towns of Bastrop and Smithville, Texas. Neither of these places is actually worth stopping for — unless you happen to enjoy skateboarding or riding the freestyle bikes. We happen to dig both, so we totally went there!

I kept eating shit on my left side for some reason. We even got one of ‘em on tape. Maybe my right brain hemisphere was outta wack.

There is a certain liberation in the experience of pain. Easy for me to say right now since I’m on painkillers and beer and…stuff…but still…

A.J. never ate it once. He gets rad.

Here’s the less painful version of the thing I was trying earlier.

A.J. dropped into the deep end of the pool a few times.

…then we loaded up and headed for Smithville.

I hung my socks outta the back window so they’d be dry again when we reached our next destination.

The Smithville park wasn’t bad.

A.J. had a good time jumping a hip into the grass.

…and I managed to pull this one after a bunch of tries.

The end.

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Many thanks to Jason and A.J. for this piece. Fun stuff.