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Skating with Simon

10:26pm JST Sunday 20 December 2009 (day 14515)

I'm not sure I can call this a Wild Skating Adventure, but I can certainly call it the first time I've skated in a long time! The area of Kyoto where we skated was pretty flat, with few smooooothly paved areas, and zero parking garages. We skated from his house, and then a bit along the river, then skated up this street and past a large shrine, and down that street to somewhere else, all the while discussing our latest discoveries online about what's really going on in the world.

On our way home, he found a nice wooden box that was being discarded, confirmed the shop owner didn't want it, and skated with a box the rest of the way. The box chilled on a bench under a tray of chopsticks while we ate at a sushi restaurant. We tried fugu, the famously deadly blowfish. Disappointingly, the fish was already cut when we asked for it; they were just like "here ya go," and gave us the plate. It was chewy and a bit gross, but otherwise uneventful. "Well, Simon, thank you. You witnessed my first and last time to try fugu."

Though I wore his helmet, knee pads and wrist guards, I didn't need them at any point during the skate.