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We write to you sitting next to a document. It is confidential as of now, but it looks cool and it’s filled with potential. Like a jelly donut.
During the month of July, we’ll be on the move. A lot. Tackling an itinerary that even our roster of seasoned and experienced travelers outwardly say they are “kinda sketched on.” But we will document and record every moment along the way. We will be loose and scrambled at lots of airports across the world and we will sip airport beers to quell the anxiety and excitement. We will hit record. And make so much rad stuff for you that we won’t be able to contain our excitement and we’ll probably post shit to Instagram that’s way too good for it, and then have no other option but to work harder so that every piece you see thereafter is even better. We will be alongside people like Arto Saari, who will be shooting photos for us in what we’ve heard is the greatest city in the world: Copenhagen. Our bags are packed. Our trucks are loose. And our surfboards are coming too. We’re going to the Old World, with new ideas.
To be continued…
Denmark is on the Itinerary Collected Thoughts 065
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