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If you\u2019d like to take a ride on the Goodyear blimp, it turns out you can\u2019t do it wearing heels.<\/p>\n
This I learned on Day 2 of Coachella, when the people who promote the tire company\u2019s famous dirigible \u2014 they have a nice lady in charge of the blimp\u2019s socials and everything \u2014 invited me and my colleagues Rebecca Castillo and Kayla Bartkowski to climb on board for a little cruise over the desert festival.<\/p>\n
Before we could get on to the airship that had room for about six to eight people, we had to watch a safety video in which the narrator told us that you can\u2019t wear heels on the blimp \u2014 but that if you\u2019d worn them today, you could check with a Goodyear representative and they\u2019d see about other arrangements. (One rep told me she\u2019d already loaned out her sneakers several times Saturday.)<\/p>\n
Anyway!<\/p>\n
Los Angeles Times reporter Mikael Wood rides the Goodyear blimp flying over Coachella <\/p>\n
(Kayla Bartkowski\/Los Angeles Times)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/figure><\/div>\n
The ride was gentler than I\u2019d anticipated \u2014 kind of like a boat ride in a harbor. We took off from a giant dirt field at the Jacqueline Cochran Regional Airport in Thermal and tooled around for 30 minutes or so; when we got over Coachella, we could see a few hundred Beliebers camped out as close to the main stage as they could get \u2014 nine or 10 hours before Bieber\u2019s performance was scheduled to begin.<\/p>\n
They looked so little down there \u2014 so small in size, so big in Beliebf.<\/p>\n
Back on the ground, we had to get off the blimp two by two, each duo replaced by a new pair of folks who\u2019d responded to an email asking if they might want to a ride on a humongous floating billboard.<\/p>\n
The ladies who replaced Rebecca and Kayla looked super jazzed; my guy seemed less impressed.<\/p>\n
Maybe he\u2019d blimped before.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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