Going In Blind

This article, written and photographed by Matt Price, documents an Ipath trip to Thailand. The article was published in the October 2011 issue of The Skateboard Mag, and features the infamous photo of Fred Gall wallriding the side of a moving bus.

Smells Like Bigfoot's Dick: Streaking in the Land of the Rising Sun

An IPath trip to Japan article from the October 2006 issue of Skateboarder. Words and photos by Jonathan Mehring.

Popwar - 2004 Eastern Europe trip

This October 2004 Thrasher article covers a Popwar trip through Eastern Europe. Words by Cairo Foster and photos by Luke Ogden. I chose to scan this one almost exclusively because of how much I like the sequence of Cairo's backside nosegrind 180 out.

Feeling Sheepish in New Zealand

From the April 2005 Skateboarder Contents page summary: "Gareth Stehr hosts a wild excursion through his homeland of New Zealand, where Dan Drehobl, Daniel Shimizu, Alex Klein and Nate Jones deal with gangsterism, caning, and problem gambling, all while Kenny Reed proves he is the Lord of the Pies". Words by Alex Klein and photos by Brian Gaberman.

Wanted Men: Harrowing Tales from Morocco

The Contents description for this August 2006 Skateboarder article reads:

It's a narrative of trouble in the Sahara as Kenny Reed, Jack Sabback, Fred Gall, Jerry Hsu, Javier Mendizabal and Tony Cox dodge death in search of the mystical City of Marble. It's a tale of murder, flying carpets, charred pigeons and pots of gold at the end of the rainbow.

Words and photos by Jonathan Mehring.

Thessaloniki - December 2006 Skateboarder

Travis Howell and the Planet Earth team's trip to Thessaloniki in the summer of 2006 was documented in an article within the December 2006 issue of Skateboarder, with photos by Ian O'Connor. Possibly the first skate company trip to the second-largest city in Greece?

Kenny Reed - Noseslide in Kazakhstan

This Jonathan Mehring photo of Kenny Reed nosesliding the unofficial world's longest hubba in Astana, Kazakhstan was taken during a Mehring-led trip to Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan in October 2008 and appeared in the March 2009 issue of Skateboarder. 

For reasons that are obvious, this photo has always stood out to me ever since I saw it for the first time. I spent the next 15 years occasionally searching for the clip on YouTube and Vimeo, wondering if it even existed. Finally, in 2022 when I posted a scan of this to Instagram, Mehring let me know that Mark Nickels was the filmer on the trip. I reached out to him over Instagram DM, and Mark said that he would be posting it the near future, as he was in the process of going through some of his old tapes. I forgot about the DM soon after. Fast forward almost exactly two years later (yesterday when I'm currently typing this), and I was reminded of the request after sending Mark a DM asking permission to repost his clip of Kanten Russell backside 180ing the Bercy 5. After a quick scroll through his Instagram account, I discovered to my absolute delight that Mark had posted the clip a year after I'd asked about it. After waiting and looking for fifteen years, I'd finally seen the clip! You can watch it here. Thanks Mark!!!

The Lingua Franca of Kenny Reed

A short 2007 interview with Kenny Reed about why he likes to travel so much and why it inspires him, and the differences he's observed between Americans and Europeans during those travels. There's a few cool black & white photos by Jonathan Mehring in this, another guy who is no stranger to travelling all over the globe (he even made a book about it!)

Killing Cairo: Popwar trip to NYC

An August 2004 Popwar trip to New York City was documented in a long article written by Brian Gaberman for the January 2005 issue of Skateboarder. He also shot all of the photos. There's a couple of tricks down the Fish Gap here, including a backside flip by Raymond Molinar. 18 years later, Tyshawn Jones would backside flip up it.