seniorec is leaving the country, and I am sad about this. We went to the only miniramp in Taipei, but rollerbladers waxed everything they could, and it was almost unskateable. Those bastards vandalized the ramp, and if there's anything totally uncompatible with skateboarding, it's vandalism. Furious, we went to get some water (and new 711 cheese burrito, which they got right this time) and discovered that there is a new plaza next door. It was a couple of fountains and manny uh, benches, but most of all, it has some free floating grindable philly stairs. Also, the surface is new taipei stone, so it's slick as bacon grease on a shinned hardwood floor. Thank you, harleydavidson.
We cruised back over to the ramp to meet my favorite dutertesupporter and were pleasantly surprised to by a party of homies from the bridge. It turned into a massive ramp session, and only one person suffered bodily harm because of the rollerbladers' wax. Scum.
It was the kind of session that I would swear out loud "this is my last drop in," but 45 minutes, I was still there. I stayed to lights out, and then skated home. This took me three hours, and if anything, was even better than the ramp session. I found a 30m marble ledge under a bridge, totally virgin, with a wall ride right beside it, adn then cruised the sidewalks for miles. A new granite bank to ledge has been installed on the way, and I can't begin to count the number of kickers and metal loading ramps I blasted through on the way back. I stopped at 7 several times to beer up, and when the tiles got rough, I skated beer in hand into oncoming traffic in the newly paved asphalt. I passed hundreds of marble and granite curbs, and grinded some of them, and slammed on a couple, spilling my TB. I was mostly lost, but confident that if I kept heading west, I could find something I recognized. I did, but sporatically, and this made it much more fun.
There is no greater joy in skating than getting lost on the way home and cruising till you make it back. Taipei is the greatest skate city in the world.
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