Biking in Italy–the sad truth and the happy implications

OK, this has bummed me out as much as it has a lot of you. After looking at the euro vs. dollar exchange rates, seeing how much touring Italy by bicycle is going to cost right now, and considering some interesting and exciting business prospects I have right now despite the general economic doom and […]

Steel rivers on the Tour de California

What kind of pictures do you take when you’re bicycle touring?
You and your bike on a cliff edge or a rickety bridge, overlooking an ice cold torrent of swirling water? How about this instead:
Out on the 7th Street bridge where it crosses the freeway. During rush hour. I saw a group of bike tourists […]

Griffith Park Fire

Yeah, I know it’s old news now, but there’s a lesson here.
Since we can’t ride in the park yet (something about being attacked by disoriented squirrels), here’s a photo of the blaze. I took it from Los Feliz Blvd, which looked a lot different with no cars and the power turned off.
By the way, the […]

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 […]