My long awaited adventure has started and I am having a blast so far and turning some heads with the Bong Street van as usual. I have started the trip in Huntington Beach and will be working my way thru Orange County and then onto Los Angeles this week, and then forward onto Bay Area.

Before I took off I made sure to have the rest of my decals put on the van as there were 2 missing from the first time it was done. The core message of the company. “LEGALIZE IT”. See below. I think it looks pretty sweet.

Legalize it Baby!!!

So I took off on Friday the 5th of December and rolled up to Huntington Beach. I had one small encounter with the law on the way up. Luckily, the cop was a cool guy. He was a military cop in Oceanside. I was trying to find a diesel station and was driving like I was lost. He let me go on my way.

Once near Huntington Beach, I met up with a buddy I met in San Diego thru my old neighbor. Friday night I mobbed the town with him and a few of his friends. I got a few stickers out that night but not too many cause I forgot to grab more before we left the house. Its OK though, I made up for it on Saturday.

The next morning I kicked it off to an early start. I had to find a place to plugin my labtop. As much as I try to stay away from the corporate claws of Starbucks, they somehow got me back here. FUCK!!! Damn Wi-Fi service being so hard to find a free connection. “Come on local coffee shops, step it up a notch. Hook the modern man up with some internet.” Its ok. I suppose I will heal with time.

Once I got my game plan together for the day, I took off down Beach blvd. towards the 405 and then worked my way west. Once I hit up most of Beach blvd, I made my way to Costa Mesa/Newport Beach area and then went back to downtown HB. Once back in Huntington Beach, I hit up the last few shops in the area and called it a day. No big sales for the day as most of the buyers were out for the stores but I met a lot of potential clients and got a lot of catalogs out. I was able to get this sweet shot of the sunset with the van. Check it out.

Sunset on Bong Street in Huntington Beach

I had to give Wahoo’s Fish Tacos a try. Damn travel channel embedding their marketing in my head. Pretty damn good though, I must say. After that, I kicked it in a few different spots to blaze some bowls. I also met some cool heads.

Kind of a crazy little story, but I met this guy named Justin who called me out when I was walking back to the van downtown. He’s like, “Hey, Bong Street, you wanna smoke a joint.” So I’m like, “Fuck it, whatever’s clever.” So I proceed to drive the guy around town for about 15-20 minutes while he tries to find his car. He was a bit drunk and couldn’t remember where he had parked. He ended up getting out to try to find his car and he said he would call me once he finds it and we’ll blaze.

So maybe 5 minutes had passed since I dropped him off and he called back. He’s like, “Hey come back, I found my car.” I said “cool, i’ll roll back.” I get their and he decides that he now does not know where his wallet or his keys are. He was very hastey and frantic wondering what to do at this point. Although it wasn’t my problem, I felt obligated to help the guy out as I would want someone to do for me. I rolled him back to the bar where his friends were so he could try to trace his stuff down. I proceeded to skate around town getting stickers out and around.

Huntington Beach downtown is a small little area so it is easy to run into the same person a few times. He walked over near me when I was chilling at Three Dice Coffee & Surfboards talking to the workers. I just had got done telling the story to the lady at the shop when Justin walked over. He was not able to locate his wallet and keys. He was contemplating breaking his window to get his weed out. I told him to not worry about it and I would smoke him out. We had a sesh and spit some flows to some my beats and then we split up again and I went skating again.

We ran into eachother one more time for the night, this time he said that his girl had dumped him. Rough luck he was having that night. His friends met up with us and they took off for the night and I rolled out of downtown HB for the night.

It was a funny situation, he had kept apologizing for not being able to smoke me out that night. It didn’t bother me a bit. It’s just what I do. Funny part was he actually came thru for me as I was trying to have a little night cap before I went to bed and my lighter died. He had accidentally left his lighter in my van. So homeboy didn’t know it, but he hooked me up at the end of the night so I could blaze…

The universe has a very funny way of bringing people together sometimes…

More to come as I make my way up the state of California…

Until then stay good and blazed and LIVE AND THINK FREELY!!!