Skating on the last sunny day............

Right before the rain started we went to Sam Smith Park and I skated the I-90 bike tunnel.

longboard season

Some of you might know I started skateboarding last summer. Throughout the winter I didn't get many opportunities to ride, with the rain, cold, and so on. I'm still really a beginner so I stayed away from the indoor skate parks.

I wanted to try hitting some parking garages, but I just never got around to it.

Now the trees are starting to bloom and spring is warming up.

I look forward to skating. My wife got a beach cruiser to ride along Alki.

We went a week ago, but it was still very cold and so windy that I could barely skate. It was pushing me backwards.


Here is a video of me skating last year that I made from still photos from Alki.

Leaping this year into old age

Last night I took advantage of the good weather and did some longboarding down the street from our condo. This morning when I woke up my body was sore and my bones were creaking. it was good to work out my aggressions on the road, and I was inspired by a book I checked out of the library called, " Scarred for Life". It is stories about skateboaders and skateboarding. One of the stories referenced a filmmaker I know , Brian Lilla you can see a trailer of the film "20 to Life" on his website.

Not that I really needed any motivation to skate, I just needed it not to rain.