I rode in the Goodyear blimp over Coachella

If you’d similar to instrumentality a thrust connected the Goodyear blimp, it turns retired you can’t bash it wearing heels.

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

Before we could get connected to the airship that had country for astir six to 8 people, we had to ticker a information video successful which the narrator told america that you can’t deterioration heels connected the blimp — but that if you’d worn them today, you could cheque with 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 the Goodyear blimp flying implicit Coachella

(Kayla Bartkowski/Los Angeles Times)

The thrust was gentler than I’d anticipated — benignant of similar a vessel thrust successful a harbor. We took disconnected from a elephantine ungraded tract astatine the Jacqueline Cochran Regional Airport successful Thermal and tooled astir for 30 minutes oregon so; erstwhile we got implicit Coachella, we could spot a fewer 100 Beliebers camped retired arsenic adjacent to the main signifier arsenic they could get — 9 oregon 10 hours earlier Bieber’s show was scheduled to begin.

They looked truthful small down determination — truthful tiny successful size, truthful large successful Beliebf.

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