MORE LAX bike rides!

BACK IN LA again!

I had 2 back to back layovers in LA this month. The weather was great topping out at about 76 degrees! I chose to go north on the first up through Santa Monica, Will Rogers Beach to a new north most turning point; Temescal Canyon Road! Next time I will shoot for Malibu!

I found a decent breakfast place in Marina del Rey. Joni's coffee grinder serves up fresh coffee and orange juice. I had some delicious banana pancakes one day. On the other layover I tried the oatmeal with fresh strawberries and bananas. That was good too. I am reserving judgement on the service though. One day it was fine the other the staff seemed a little unnecessarily grumpy.


On the second layover I went south to Redondo Beach. No record here tho. I stopped at the Redondo Beach Marina. Along the way I did a detour through El Segundo where I grabbed a burger. El Segundo is an interesting place located immediately south of runway 25 left at LAX, with a power plant and I what looks to be a refinery to the west. There is beach access though and the beach is not bad. I mentioned in a previous write that there is a hang glider port here along with the Marvin Braude bike trail. The beach is a nice wide Southern California style, I think clean, sandy beach. I think it is possible to ignore the jets taking off to the north and the power plant / refinery is behind - you're not looking that direction anyway! Surf was not bad.

On my return I came upon a sad sight. A 46' sailboat had washed up onto the beach and looked like it may not survive the ordeal. I did some research and found that the owner was preparing to sail around the world in this boat. During a wind storm a few days back the anchor line had severed and, well, you can imagine the rest of the story. (picture coming)

Both days; 73 miles.