…Which started with a very sleepy and sweaty journey to Charleston.

This was probably the most rockin sesh we had so far during the afternoon! Disregarding the unbelievably humid temperature, so many people were so open to what we were showing them. We met some brilliant new mates here. Like…truly great guys that stuck with us for the rest of the evening. So when the apparently DAILY downpour of rain came (and i mean it REALLY hit hard) we headed straight for the local apartment pool.

Which turned out to be another one of the coolest (if not the coolest) session so far. The power of a single piece of nylon webbing over a swimming pool is incredible. Suffice to say we had a CRACKING time. No…seriously though, I smashed my nose jumping into the pool. Blood…EVERYWHERE! Dah well! I’m fine and smiling as always…just rather swollen!

Pressing an ice pack/cool beer to my nose for the rest of the night, we made our way to another favorite lodging of ours…DAYS INN!!!

The rest, they say, is history!

Today, the original plan was to catch up with the triathlon that was goin on in Wilmington this morning. But we managed to miss out on a large portion of sleep. We stayed at a real dude called Adams house-who we found through couchsurfing.com-and ended up having a real social gathering.

Unfortunately this meant we didnt wake up at like 9:00, so by the time we got to the point we were aiming for (at 10:00!) it had been and gone! But this doesn’t keep a slackliner from his work!

We headed directly to Kure beach. We set up our line under the pier..and it was schweeeeet! We met so many people. A couple of them were already involved with the triathlon I mentioned earlier. These guys ruled!

Due to the SUPER sweet waves there were plenty of surfers around also. Something has to be said about a surfers natural feel for a slackline. The rocking motion of the waves is such a close comparison to the movement of a slackline. Especially as the movement of the water was really throwing Miha, Chris and me off balance and not them, it was a real lesson for us all!

After this awesome beach session we were obliged to go watch the USA vs Brazil “soccer” final in downtown Wilmington. Fair shout to USA for getting so far!…well, diamond comes from coal right?! (checked out some of Wimbledon after ofcourse…go Murray!)

Then we went back to the now legendary “Econo-Lodge” and slept off our beach burned bodies till the next day…

If  no one else has ever been to the Southeastern US, I would highly recommend it.  Being a native New Englander (yes, that is in the US), the South is a totally different breed of people.  Slow, southern drawl predominates and certainly makes for interesting conversation.  From where we left off, we stayed in Richmond for one more day.  Again, it seems like people do not like to be outside.  We checked out the park by the capital building….. and found a Segway tour.  Then we went to Bell Island, a beautiful park in the middle of the James River running through Richmond.  Then….the Segway tour followed us.  We checked out some kids rope swinging from the bottom of the interstate…sketch.  We also contacted a climbing gym who thought that our slackline would be a liability.  We finally had a solo sesh in a beautiful little pine forest.  Awesome for us.

From there, we retired to our hotel and a little pool session and then bed.  We set out for Raleigh, NC the next day, but being a sleepy State Capital, we peaced out for UNC Chapel Hill, the state’s flagship school. Being the designated trip navigator, (an American), I decided to find a large park, which was completely wooded…  We finally set up a line between a tree and a light post and had a live band to the likes of Dispatch as a soundtrack.  Back at the parking lot, Ash had aparently found a huge wooded green right next to the car….. Oops!

We spent the night in Wilmington, NC and headed to the beach today.  Beautiful!  Huge waves and an awesome response!  One guy even walked the whole line.  It was pretty amazing.  At about 3, we packed up for Wilmington’s Third Annual BrewGrass Festival, home to local beers and 6 hours of Bluegrass.  It was in a parking lot of all places, so we opted to set up a line outside.  Before even running the line, a cop told us we couldn’t set one up on City property without a permit.  After mouthing off a bit, we gave in, entered the grounds and actually had an even more amazing response.  We handed out cards, stickers and talked to at least half the people there.  Many offered to show up in the morning at a Triathalon we are going to and someone even offered for us to stay at his house, take us out on his boat and throw a party for us.  Just tell everyone you are a slackliner and the world falls into place!

Hey all, Chris here.  Joined the East Coast tour Tuesday night.  Ash and Miha grabbed me at Dulles, and we stayed at a hotel in Alexandria, VA.  With me came the team’s debit card.  Thankfully, since Ash and Miha were down to their last dollar.  No, really.  Ash spent his last bit of cash paying for the parking fee.  The lucky dollar is now imprinted on the car ceiling.

The next morning, we happened upon a Gibbon St on our way to get on the highway.  A nice start to the tour.  We got into Richmond and found this little park with a pond in the middle.  We attempted a 100 foot line over the water, but the wind and length proved our enemies.  The water was also super gross, so checked out from there and into our hotel for a rinse.

From our experience, people in Richmond don’t hang out in parks too much.  We went to a couple super beautiful parks… and very few people were there.  Most were feeding Canadian Geese.  We finally stumbled upon Jefferson Park and met a couple of guys who were psyched on the line and then a hoard of kids from the neighborhood. The kids couldn’t get enough!  Check the photos.

From there, we hit up this great Ethiopian restaurant, which none of us had had before.  A little spiciness later, we retired to our hotel for some R&R by the pool.  Another day in Richmond for some parks in the city center.

Generally Miha has pretty sticky fingers and will usually hold on to things without realising, but yesterday was different. We realised he had left the laptop case at the Sportrock Climbing Gym! So we took a trek back there to pick it up and ended up having a little climb. Our timing couldn’t be better as there was a lady there practicing some pretty special acrobatics. Unfortunately I can’t remember exactly what it was called, but the pictures speak for themselves. Pretty breath taking stuff!

After watching the crazy ribbon lady (her name was Robin) for a bit we moved off back to DC  (very slowly to save our dwindling fuel supplies I might add). After having great success here on the first day we went back to the same spot we were at before near the Washington Monument. This proved to have little of the same success and didnt really manage to pull a crowd, but did bump into one of the guys we met at the Rock Gym. Small world huh? A little after he left we got politely moved on by the police. So we obliged and moved on to the airport to pick up a brand spanking new shiny team mate Chris, who turned out to be a lovable bundle of joy! I can see some awesome times ahead with him and I’m sure it’s gona be mighty useful to have a genuine yankee on the team!

On an unrelated note those of you who have been keeping up with the blog may have read something from Holger about us being helped out by the WCT team and their forfeit for this help was a picture of us slacklining in a dress and black lipstick. If they think this is going to happen so easily they have another thing coming. If we are to embarrass ourselves publicly they too should have to suffer some similar humiliation. Any suggestions from our devote fans will be greatfully received!

Keep on a-slacking folks!