I Rode In The Goodyear Blimp Over Coachella

If you’d for illustration to return a thrust connected nan Goodyear blimp, it turns retired you can’t do it wearing heels.

This I learned connected Day 2 of Coachella, erstwhile nan group who beforehand nan tyre company’s celebrated dirigible — they person a bully woman successful complaint of nan blimp’s socials and everything — invited maine and my colleagues Rebecca Castillo and Kayla Bartkowski to climb connected committee for a small cruise complete nan godforsaken festival.

Before we could get connected to nan airship that had room for astir six to 8 people, we had to watch a information video successful which nan narrator told america that you can’t deterioration heels connected nan blimp — but that if you’d worn them today, you could cheque pinch a Goodyear typical and they’d spot astir different arrangements. (One rep told maine she’d already loaned retired her sneakers respective times Saturday.)

Anyway!

Los Angeles Times newsman Mikael Wood rides nan Goodyear blimp flying complete Coachella

(Kayla Bartkowski/Los Angeles Times)

The thrust was gentler than I’d anticipated — benignant of for illustration a vessel thrust successful a harbor. We took disconnected from a elephantine ungraded section astatine nan Jacqueline Cochran Regional Airport successful Thermal and tooled astir for 30 minutes aliases so; erstwhile we sewage complete Coachella, we could spot a fewer 100 Beliebers camped retired arsenic adjacent to nan main shape arsenic they could get — 9 aliases 10 hours earlier Bieber’s capacity was scheduled to begin.

They looked truthful small down location — truthful mini successful size, truthful large successful Beliebf.

Back connected nan ground, we had to get disconnected nan blimp 2 by two, each duo replaced by a caller brace of folks who’d responded to an email asking if they mightiness want to a thrust connected a humongous floating billboard.

The ladies who replaced Rebecca and Kayla looked ace jazzed; my feline seemed little impressed.

Maybe he’d blimped before.