So as planned, I bolted my GoPro Hero cam to the back of my seat tube and aimed it out over my rear wheel for today’s lovely CicLAvia sequel, and it worked out great capturing where I’d been. Here’s my first trek out to Boyle Heights from East Hollywood; Followed by the return trip from …
Juuuuuuuuuust as I was beginning to wonder where my official CicLAvia 2011 Supporter spokecard was at, it showed up in the mail a couple days ago and made real all the latent anticipation I have for the second 7.5-mile long street party taking place tomorrow morning. I warranted being sent one of those as a …
Until last year, the farthest urban environment from home I’d ever rode a bike as an adult was San Antonio, Texas, which deposed riding done in San Francisco way back in 2003. From here on out, I’ll have to work really hard to top my new 8,000-plus mile long-distance record: Chiang Mai, Thailand: Granted, the …
After a sunrise spent at Angkor Wat Temple, followed by a visit to Ta Prohm Temple, we opted to split off from the tour group with like-minded adventurers Miles and Maryanne from San Francisco. And after negotiating rates for a pair of tuk tuks, the four of us set out from Ta Prohm on about …
They’re nothing more than bike-icon’d pedestrian walkways, ultra-narrow and really weird, coursing through areas of intense squalor and abject poverty, but they’re their: Look waaaaaay up ahead and yeah, that’s a no-nonsense 90-degree right turn.
For the CicLAvia fundraiser last Saturday (that I couldn’t attend because I was out walking the Eastside with a buncha cool people) I was invited to submit my timelapse that I made while riding across the event’s route between Boyle Heights and East Hollywood, to be included in a showcase with the immortalizings several other …