tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-68419419350306549252012-02-16T02:26:25.341-08:00Mike and Monica Schwennenoreply@blogger.comBlogger221100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6841941935030654925.post-71549902555140080422011-01-30T20:24:00.000-08:002011-01-30T20:29:41.718-08:00

Joey Gradek, Zak Sievers & Tyler Higham are officially added to the westcoast wakeboard camp crew. To check out their NEW interviews go to our team page!http://westcoastcamps.com/Team_camp.htm Congrats guys...Welcome aboard

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Camper Shane Licari finishes 2nd in WA State finals. Congradulations Shane...we're so proud. Keep up the hard work. If you have any major accomplishments, email us...we'd love to post them.Mike Schwenne

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As with any summer, there are always tons of things we change to improve your wakeboard camp experience. We even are already working on improvements for summer 2011. NEW LAKE HOUSEWe picked up a lake house at a bank auction last fall. It’s a killer 3 bed, 2 bath with an amazing valley view on over 2 acres. It’s also less than a 4 minute drive to the launch ramp. Those campers staying

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Hi campers, It’s been a long and wet winter, and you know what that means…the lakes will be full this summer. Regardless of the weather much of our staff has been training every weekend together(Mike, Mon, Trever, Alyssa, Jake, and new coach Jermey Twelker). We’ve put together some cool new videos from over the winterCoaches video: http://www.alliancewake.com/wake/

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West Coast Camps lessons from trever maur on Vimeo.

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New York!!!Back in America! We were SO happy to be in our homeland! New York was still very foreign to us west coasters! Taking the air-train to the subway and the subway into the city we explored the monstrous city of NY, NY!!! Our "self-guided" tour started by going on the free ferry to Stanten Island, through the financial district, ground zero, Broadway, Time Square and Central Park!

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Dublin, IrelandGetting from the airport into Dublin was the usual bus ride into the city center followed by a walk to the hostel. Our stay in Ireland consisted of taking a walking tour around the city, train ride to a nearby coastal town and a full day journey out west! The best part of the trip was by far our trip out to the West Coast! From Dublin we took a bus to Galway (4 1/2 hours) then

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Paris!Our flight into Paris was not really into the city Paris but a good 1 hour train ride into the city. Since our flight got in late we stayed at a local hotel and in the morning we began our journey into Paris. After looking at several maps we decided on our route to get to the train station...no more taxis! We walked to the bus station and stared at the schedule for a long while in order to

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ItalyArriving in Rome we took the bus, train and then walked to find our hostel. Out of all the places we have stayed this was by far the sketchiest!!! So we set out on our sightseeing trying to se as much as possible in the short time we were there! Since it was late in the afternoon we just decided to wander. Gelato was at the top of or list to get, of course! As we walked along we encountered

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EnglandFor our journey to England we took a taxi, plane, bus, and train! We were doing great up until out last train connection when we were told after the train was boarded that it was cancelled due to a car that was on the tracks. Everyone had to get off the train and find other means of transport! Meanwhile, Val and Dan Nelson, friends of Mike's from SC, were waiting for us at the next stop!

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FranceAfter parting with Rod and Shelby, we headed for France (which is right over the boarder from San Sebastian where we were). Biarritz was our first stop and our favorite- it is an adorable coastal town with a relaxed feel. Only spending one night, i wished it was more. The next stop was Bordeaux. Since our train got in when it was already dark we did not get to se much and the next day our

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SpainAnother long day of travel for us...metro to airplane to metro then by foot. Miraculously we found the hostel fine! But the weather was the COLDEST we had yet and really wet!!! About 10 minutes after we arrived so did Rod and Shelby! We spent the day catching up and walking around Madrid. We took a train up north to San Sebastian the next day. San Sebastian is a beautiful quaint city! I

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GreeceArriving in Greece we quickly realized the meaning "It's all Greek to me" since Greek looks nothing like English--completely different symbols!!! Lots of signs were written in Greek as well as English, but not always....To arrive to the hostel we took a bus to metro and then walked...(sounds pretty easy but when stops for the bus are written in Greek it is a bit harder! But despite the

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SingaporeDue to the riots and the shutdown of the Thailand Airport the day prior to our scheduled departure to Thailand we were rerouted to Singapore with an 11 hour layover. Once we arrived in the Singapore Airport we signed up to take a free tour into the city of Singapore. This was a pleasant surprise since we didn't think that we would even get to make it out of the airport. Singapore is a

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After getting skunked (re wakeboarding) in New Zealand; we approached Australia this time with a couple prior contacts. Greg Nelson got us in contact with a handful of his friends. We'd also emailed Amber Wing in hopes of getting some wakeboarding in.At the airport in New Zealand, we finally got on the internet again for a few minutes. Ian "Clarky" Clark, one of Nelsons contacts had emailed us

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New ZealandNovember 7-13From the moment we stepped off the airplane in Auckland we loved New Zealand. Although we quickly discovered that the weather was not what we had anticipated (we thought that it would be hot summer weather and it was cold, windy and rainy) we still had high hopes for what our adventure in this beautiful country would bring. After picking up our "home" for the time we were

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Prior to heading to Tahiti, our friend Russel Spencer reccommended that we hook up with OG (american pronunciation) in Tahiti. I also called up Jessen Vedel, originally from Tahiti now living in Canyon lake, to help us with our adventure. Jesson gave me the general lowdown on where to surf, wakeboard, stay, travel too etc. He also gave me his friend Arno's (again american Pronunciation,

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Kauai,Hi was the first stop of our three month adventure…A few years back I(mike) took a surf trip to visit Darin Shapiro, Parks Bonifay, Shawn Watson, Joey Meddock and Danny Harf in Kauai, Hi. We stayed in these killer condo's right on the cliffs in Princeville, overlooking hideaways; just a short walk over to Hanalei Bay. Ever since that trip, I knew that is where I wanted to spend my honeymoon

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Rules for adventure(we're always adding new rules)1) Good family support back home. Thanks you grandparents, and parents for your support2) Don't reserve hotel rooms. We gave ourselves one night reservation at the tahiti airport motel, due to suggustion from friend Jessen Vedell. It was so nice and convient for the area that we ended up staying two nights.3) Try not to stay in hotels when

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Mike finally went for it...He SHAVED his head! Crazy huh? Just a bit ago Mike would not shave his head for a few hundred dollars! He wants to have a low maintenance hair do. Here are the pics to prove it...

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This is the first of many posts for our trip around the world. We are currently in Kauai, Hawaii on our Honeymoon! Our trip has been filled with surfing, hiking, adventuring, eating, tanning, and even wakeboarding. Soon we will post some photos of our trip so you can see what we have been up to...

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On oct 4 2008Mike and Monica were officially married at Spanish Bay, in Carmel Ca. Thanks to all our friends who sacrificed to make it to our wedding. Your support really meant a lot to us. The day was absolutely perfect…we couldn’t have asked for anything more. We love you all, and we’ll miss you over the next few months.

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