For those of you who knew me in Seattle, you'll remember that when I worked at the UW I loved to be a bike commuter. I loved to ride along the Burke Gliman Trail and watching the water as I rode.
Fast forward to Hollywood, CA. Any water near me is 45 minutes away in Santa Monica, a strange distance after living in Seattle. Before Christmas I had been mainly walking to my job, a 30 minute walk. Our bikes are in the process of getting fixed, or at least we need to get them fixed, and so I decided that to take time off my walk I would bring my roller blades back from Michigan. On New Year's Eve I completed the first ever roller blade commute to my job. Just to give you all a visual: I was wearing my helmet, wrist guards and Colombia fleece- not exactly looking like a Los Angelain. And the commute went well, but I decided that there were too many bumps in the sidewalks to make using roller blades a regular occurance, if I value my life. Since then my roommates and I have joked about what a site I was and how un-Hollywood and strange I must have looked.
However, two days ago, as I was walking home from work again, I saw it: a girl riding towards me on roller blades! Now, she did not have the nerdy one size fits all roller blades, hers actually looked pretty expensive, and she wasn't wearing a helmet or anything, but seeing this girl proved to me that there are people here who roller blade to work! And that thought makes me smile. I'm not the only one...
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