Getting back in the saddle (after not riding yesterday on account of the rain) I rolled out what’s becoming my standard 12.65-mile route to the LA River and back. On the river bikeway when I came under the Fletcher Drive bridge I caught sight of a great blue heron at the water’s edge looking for …
No ride yesterday. Sigh. The Bike Everyday In October challenge streak ends at four consecutive days. I blame the storm, which didn’t really let up between 8 a.m. and 3:30 p.m., and dropped four inches of rain on the area (no, really). When it finally quit pouring I tried to get my hopes up for …
Today’s rainy, but yesterday was just ominously cloudy, and on the fourth day he… cruised 12.25 miles casually from Silver Lake to Atwater Village down through Elysian Valley (but not on the river bikeway) to Chinatown and Echo Park back to Silver Lake.
Getting a ride in was a bit iffy again yesterday. I didn’t see my way out of the house and onto the saddle until around 4:30 p.m. for what initially was going to be an errand roll to the Echo Park library and back to return a book (“El Niño,” by Douglas Anne Munson aka …
I suppose I’ll take it more seriously when I get to ride No. 10 and up, but for now with ride No. 2 behind me I’m not fully vested in my late-breaking “Ride Every Day In October” challenge — an idea that my brain spat out yesterday at some point during yesterday’s ride the first …
Yesterday as an excuse to get out with the new Olympus camera I went wandering through Silver Lake, Los Feliz Village and down by the river side, with an extended chill session at the water’edge:
Armed but with her curiosity and a yellow baloon a young lady passing by keeps a watchful eye on a Sunset Boulevard mural monster in Silver Lake (click it for the bigger picture):