Have you ever walked around an office building barefoot? It's a small thing but it feels so much different - the texture of the rug, the smoothness of polished faux marble, and the temperature changes from when you walk through that bit that had sunlight on it for a while. That's one reason I loved riding on the back of a motorcycle in California - the sensations: movement, wind, temperature changes, the smells that you just don't get when you are enclosed in a car.
Oh, and if you see this on the UBC campus campus, try to get up the blue umm... ribbed thing all the way. It looks easy but there's a secret to it. Ok ok, I give up. I'll
tell you the secret, but you have to tell me how you got up it, because I just banged the Jimimy Cricket out of my shins. (Photo courtesy of Wikipedia's entry on the creepy little feller here).
