Skateboard Update

Here is the thing: I am in love with my skateboard.
I'm not sure this is healthy, but...
But seriously, the board is just so beautiful in so many ways.
It is quite lovely to look at, and it's also really cool and long...Someone in the coffee shop the other day said, "now THAT"s Old School," and we laughed about it.
I make more connections with that silly board.
The Vice President of the teachers' union was here (she is pretty great and smart), and we even connected over the board.
Here she was in a beautiful, expensive suit, and there I was with my cords and fleece and skateboard...and we ended up laughing a ton. It is a long story, but I had to show them to the president's office after a meeting. So I had to get my skateboard out of my colleague's closet and carry it along with us (as I was using the board for my transportation that day). LOL! It was one of those awkward moments that could have gone a lot of ways.
But it led to laughter and connection.
So I can pretty much use my board everywhere that I go now...
All around campus...and downtown...
I went 7 miles on it once (that is my longest trip).
But mostly I go 2 miles or 3--more than I could do on foot...
and yet not too much as to be heavy.