Biking and a happy stomach
Bike Metro suggested following the bike line on Glenoaks Blvd when I typed in a route to San Fernando.
Great, except for one stretch where a vomitous stench threatens to blast you off the road. It turns out you’re riding along a landfill, hidden by a tall hedge of shrubbery.
Also, there are sections where the stripe […]
All we are is dust in the wind
We have eyelashes for days like this. From downtown to Vermont Avenue I never stopped squinting, as the Santa Ana wind pelted dust and leaves and shreds of paper and plastic from every direction. Eddies and miniature tornadoes flung litter into my spokes, and my teeth were chalky with grit by the time I got […]
Biking across early California history
We’re on a big nexus of “roads” that lead through early California, called the Royal Highway or El Camino Real. Most of the original route is covered by freeways now, but you can still get from mission to mission and sometimes city to city on paths and bikeways that are more or less faithful to […]
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