Labor Day morning, Susan and I are enjoying breakfast on the front porch. As I sit contently before the towering stack of pancakes Susan constructed for me, a fellow heading south walks past the house with a backpack slung over his shoulder and an opened bottle of cheap wine in one hand. Ranger calls out …
Of ALL the times for my usually dependable GoPro cam to quietly crap out, it would have to be on this once-in-a-lifetime opportunity (or at least once a year if this www.paddlethelariver.org program is deemed successful) to kayak a roughly two-mile stretch of the Los Angeles River between Balboa Boulevard and the Sepulveda Dam. So …
The first time was in 2006 in Spokane, Washington. The second time was a few days later in Troy, Montana. The third time was this morning while biking the East Bank of the Los Angeles River. I managed to point-and-shoot my point-and-shoot at it as it headed upstream (click it for a not very much …
I had the excellent company of Ann, Harold, Robert and Thaddeus, a fabulous foursome of fellow cycling enthusiasts, who showed up at the starting point in Silver Lake to join me on the 47-mile trek that set out about 9:45 a.m. From the left that’s Harold (who did the whole ride on a singlespeed!), me, …
On the occasion of my cousin Margaret’s last day in Los Angeles before flying home to Nashville, I picked her up from my mom’s to show her some sites, and we ended up doing more than I expected: Watts Towers Central Avenue Jazz District Central Library Disney Concert Hall Angels Flight Grand Central Market Million …
So I did two tours of the LA River’s east bank yesterday. The first with the inimitable Bonner-Brown gang along with Harold, another Silver Laker who was not only making his inaugural ride on the rugged east side of the waterway, but anywhere on the river. Glad I could help introduce it to him. Here …
Personally, if it were my garage so fully and blatantly obstructed I’d just have said asshatter’s douchemobile ticketed and towed, but I entirely appreciate the frustration with such center-of-the-universe failbaggery that leads someone to take such bold and impressive alternative action.