Greenskate Push Ride (+ Kanis Trip)

Greenskate.org is an organization/website that promotes skateboarding (longboarding in particular) as an alternative means of transportation.  There are over 40 different push ride type events this year for greenskate.  The idea is to get out and ride to celebrate.

Here in Memphis, the optimum place to celebrate alternative transportation is the greenline.  The 6.7 mile inner city paved trail is ideal for distance skating.  It is smooth, flat and it has limited cross streets.  It is also home to all of the Down South Longboarding push rides.  So, that is where the push will begin...the usual DSL starting point.  We'll ride, turn around and head back.  It won't be formal.  There is no route.  There is no organization.  You are on your own.  But...get out and ride to celebrate.

The next morning? Kanis-baby!  Little Rock! Rufus Skates Trip! So stoked!

This also includes stopping by the gallery our paintings is hanging in from the Kanis art show.  I'm very excited and anxious to see my work hanging in a gallery.  I haven't shown one of my paintings publicly since the high school art contest (I won two of three categories in it btw). The thing is, I quit painting.  For years.  I started painting and writing again after I got divorced a few years ago. Now, I have a painting hanging somewhere and I'm working on recording a new spoken work cd.

And I'm skating Kanis.

Life is grand.

Spray paint on wood fence posts...really