Coming through malibu was a bit hilly, but we made it through and came upon the flat ground again…hurray…flat ground. then came the glorious beaches. beaches that stretched as far as the eye could see and amazing sand volleyball courts covering them. What fun this beach would make on a sunday afternoon with a group of people. Coming into the Los Angeles, we didn’t know how we were going to get through without getting lost, then we found this great little bike path reserved for bikes only! (why don’t more cities create such delicacies for cyclists??) It weaved literally right on the beach. we had beach on our left, and beach on our right as well. sooo amazing. the path just kept going, so we just kept biking and eventually rode by a huge whack of venders selling odds and ends. it lasted for a couple miles, then it ended. We knew we were travelling right through LA, but had no idea whereabouts. Just a ways down, we realized we had just ridden the Venice Boardwalk. A really stellar place i guess. It has a fancy smancy sounding name, so that sounds great to me.
All day was pretty much riding on these boardwalk type paths right along the beach and I must say, that was some of the neatest paths we’ve been on…right on the beach…literally… As we neared the later part of our day, and lunch time came around (this lunch was at 3 ish or so) we found a crazy sweet beach with a bunch of people all ages playing basketball. Usually we pick random weird and strange spots to eat lunch, but we decided this time we would look for something nice…and this hit the spot. sooo…. we pulled out our 3 bags of bagels and 4 lb jar of crunchy peanut butter and jam and 2lb container of honey, and began spreading for lunch. Everyone walks and stares like always (as though they have never seen 4 canadians sitting on grass eating 3 bags of pb and jam or honey bagels with their shoes off and relaxing in the sun?) hmm…maybe not.
While we were eating lunch, a bunch of life gaurds came to rinse their vehicles and one lifegaurd came out and tossed us two bottles of specialty sunscreen! He told us he didn’t want to be seeing us get skin cancer on his watch…hehe…prob cause he took a look at Jay and saw how badly he had burnt the previous day. We rode until the evening, and like 2 hours before finishing, we got totally mixed up, and lost…..again….but! a nice old man who cycles, stopped in his car and gave us directions to the nearest, cheapest motel. There was no way we would be able to make it to a campsite, this being LA.
We arrived at a motel, and for sure thought it would be a couple hundred dollars a night and would have to pay anyway because there was no place else to go, but we got the rate, and it was super incredibly cheap! what a huge blessing! the motel was really really nice inside and once in, we quickly whipped up a delicious meal on our propane stoves- in the room- to eat. Tonight was not spaghetti either but mashed potatoes and sausage! such a grateful change.
Jared and Kinshasa walked to a store to get icecream for our 2 pies we bought as fun food for that eve, and when they returned, the only ice cream within decent vicinity was a teensy weensy tin of fun. It looked like it was only 2 mouthfulls big… it was…but it was still yummy yummy yummy!
