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02/23/2008: "Another Beach Run"
So why live in Los Angeles if you're not going to ride to the beach? So I did--again--this makes probably five hundred times, I'm sure--and snapped a couple of nice photos, which I'll paste in here for your pleasure.![](http://www.bicyclefixation.com/images/ballona_causeway_022208.jpg)
The folks in orange are probationers doing their community service cleaning up trash from the banks of Ballona Creek; you can see the bikepath along the causeway. This follows the creek all the way back to the east end of Culver City, only a few miles from where we live and work. Branches go up the coast to Malibu and down to Pacific Palisades, and it's a mighty nice place to ride--when the bubba with the gun ain't watchin' you.
![](http://www.bicyclefixation.com/images/ballona_bridge_022208.jpg)
That being the view in the other direction, with the Pacific beyond, and my old Bottecchia in the way.
![](http://www.bicyclefixation.com/images/ballona_jetty_022208.jpg)
And the view to the southwest made me think of Holland, so I fiddled it a little in PhotoShop to make it moody and serene in the way the old Dutch engravers had--or as close to it as I could manage.
One of these days I'll write up a ride report on my longer beach ride, down to Redondo and back by various routes.
It's a mighty nice way to spend a Saturday or Sunday morning in LA.