Queens of The Rollerbladers & Mission Beach Mystery Man

 August 24, 2025

   We have been escaping to San Diego for a week in August for the past 45 years. Both our kids grew up rollerblading and boogie boarding on Mission Beach and now our daughter is doing the same with her kids. Here is Deena with her daughter on the boardwalk this morning.

Queen of the Rollerbladers

   Of course Mission Beach is full of eccentric characters and there is this one guy who we look for every year who comes by on a motorized skate board with a boom box in his hand blasting great tunes all the while looking regal and aloof, posing in two semi-robo-positions as he rides by.

Mission Beach Mystery Guy

   I want to say he has been a daily presence at least for the past five years, perhaps even longer. Does he have a job? Does he have a life? Hard to say. I have tried to interview him but he just keeps going. And smiling.

"I see by your outfit you are a robo-skateboarder."

—Old Surfer Observation