I cant wait to get back to the states where there's pavement as far as the eye can see and my skating isn't limited to a small rectangle. I brought a skate mag to my tower the other day (lets just keep that between you and me). I was pointing to the pictures and tring to explain the awsomeness of skatboarding to the iraqi i share the tower with, but my efforts were in vain. He just said "no good" and made a motion like he fell on his ass, traumatized i suppose.