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Useful Sites:

Washington Area Roadskaters
DC Skate Patrol (Free Lessons)
Rollerquest (Baltimore Skaters)
Skaters Quest (a Skate School)
Skaters Refuge (Community Store)


Sites I Like:

Mocha Superman
Blake Lambert

Sites With People I Miss:

Wednesday Night Skate New York

       

Why aren't you blogging???

At some point with doing this blog, I came up with an informal set of rules, one of which was to never write anything negative. It produced a big delay on my blogging as I sorted out what I was capable of saying about WAR, the Washington Area Roadskaters as a club, both positive and negative.

I enjoyed discovering the club. I enjoyed joining and contributing my time and resources as a board member. It was great fun promoting the club and rebuilding the membership records from scratch.

I also enjoyed leaving the club. It was very liberating. Now I can go skate and not have to worry about making all the people who kept placing their demands on me happy. My free time is finally my own again.

Mon, 12 Sep 2005

   So Long to Argyle

So you meet downtown to go for a skate in the city, find yourself at Dupont Circle, make your way to Adams Morgan, do some more climbing and find yourself in Mount Pleasant. Naturally, you want to pop in somewhere for something to drink...

The Argyle convenience store was a prominent stop as a recognizable landmark for many a skate and a place that let skaters in on wheels. It's closed and gone now, for reasons unknown, but the Washington Area Roadskaters will always remember it as a setting for plenty of skating stories.

There are skater freindly convenience stores nearby but none have the character that Argyle did.


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