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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.

Paul's Photos

ere are a few photos that Paul took while on the scene at the Great Esskate.

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The Breakaway Skate

he Art Deco skate was a good idea but it involved more talking about statues and buildings than actual skating. So about a dozen and a half skaters took off to the Orange Bowl Stadium.

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Skating at Night

here were three skates to choose from on Friday, and the last one was completely at night.

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Crossing the Toll

ometimes bridges have a toll, which can get expensive for a skater if you have to pay by the wheel.

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Skate The Bridges

f there was a bridge convenient to South Beach, I think we skated it.

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We Nearly Froze to Death!

veryone was miserably cold on the Sunday Morning Skate at the Great Esskate as the weather dipped into the 50s in Miami and the palm trees started to droop. We couldn't call our friends for sympathy or moral support -- it was snowing all along the east coast -- Manhattan alone got 23 inches of snow in Central Park -- and a lot of the phone lines were down. The best we could hope for was that our flights home would get cancelled and we would be forced to stay another day. When I got back and mentioned that I missed the snow because I spent the weekend skating in South Beach, nobody believed me.

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