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Orchid Velasquez of Orquidia Violeta was at Heliotrope too, where I started.

So was this churros guy.

Robin Abad Ocubillo was helping out danish Gehl Architects & Planners on a documentary on New Hampshire and Beverly Blvd.

The Power Rangers were at MacArthur Park on 7th St.

Solar DJs The Sycons were bumping tunes on the 7th St. Bridge over the 110 Freeway.

Lenore Smith of Happy Camper Crafts and Alexis Lantz & Alissa Walker of Los Angeles Walks were at 7th and Broadway, jumping rope!

Ron Milam of Ron Milam Consulting (for your life) was on Spring Street.

As was Jenn Su of swearonourfriendship.

Aaron Kuehn’s newest posters were on 1st St. by City Hall.  Eric Garcetti was here, and I chatted with him a little bit.  Then my tire blew up. So I walked over to Broadway to the nearest bike store.

This guy was making ice cream, powered by the wheels of his bike, on Spring St.

This guy was renting a bike from DTLA Bikes on Broadway, where I bought a new tire for my bike.

Nikos Eliot Flaherty-Laub of Girls In Suede happened to be in front of DTLA too.

He rode with Amy Kim of Amy Sue Kim.  They were waiting for Kevin and Genevieve to show up and meet them there.

Kevin Biggers then showed up, and borrowed by bike pump to fill his tires.

Genevieve Santos of le petit elefant was with him too!

I rode back to City Hall to start my Route Angel shift.  And this lady, with allllllllll her parakeets on her body, was asking for directions on how to bike to west la.  Sadly, she was disappointed to hear that it was far.  Too far to ride with her birds on her.  So she put them all back in a cage that she was hauling on the back of her bike.

Andrea Denike Martinez of Bodacious Bike Babes was on 9th St. as I was headed to the African American Firefighter’s Museum.

Nat Gale and Ashley Atkinson were at the museum, enjoying free coke and reggae music.

As was Kathleen Miles of the HuffingtonPost.

Nat, who works with the city, had some killer socks on.

The LAPD was also at cicLAvia, wearing their Sunday best.

After the event, I rode with Megan Costello, who is an LA Derby Doll, and who was working the same route, and helped to clean up Spring St.  She was fast.

Eventful CicLAvia.  Great seeing everyone out there.  Enjoy LA more!

My favorite day of the year!  A re-envisioning of LA’s streets.  Such as Somerset playing cello with his band along New Hampshire…….

….. And Greg Wittman sitting with his house plants and Chester on the 7th St. bridge over the 110……..

…… Or LAPD lined up outside the Coca-Cola Bottling Plant on Central Ave.

Always something new, everytime.  I volunteered this year, and would recommend anyone to volunteer in April, at the next cicLAvia.

I spent much of the day in or around Downtown LA.  First stop: Occupy LA @ LA City Hall.

Second stop: Tour de Fat @ LA Historic State Park

Donald, Amanda, Avishay

Erik

Cat in the Porta-Potty Karaoke

Third stop : Bonaventure Adventure @ Westin Bonaventure.

Walking tour with Dan Koeppel of The Big Parade through the LA City Planner Calvin Hamilton’s 1970’s ‘Pedway’ plan for Downtown LA, connecting nodes of downtown through public pedestrian walkways, lifted above vehicular streets.  The center of his ‘pedway’ plan - the Bonaventure Hotel.

Bank of America

“Participants in the event will walk interiors, exteriors, fly-aways and walkways of the seemingly unnavigable spaces of this landmark structure of Post-Modernism that is referred to by political geographer and urban planner Ed Soja as the epitome of getting lost . At the juncture of public and private urban spaces and within BROODWORK’s exploration of Time, BONAVENTURE ADVENTURE takes the time to rediscover and reclaim the very idea of getting lost.”

Looking down Flower St.

Dan Koeppel

Interior of the Bonaventure

Third Street Tunnel

Fifth stop : The Flying Pig @ Little Tokyo.  Birthday card writing to Byron.

Sixth stop: Occupy LA General Assembly Meeting @ City Hall.

Every Tuesday Night
8pm
Glendale Public Library

Friend Erik started a bike ride in his hometown of Glendale. We rode past some historical spots in this quite city. Like the site of the first Baskin Robbins. And the Richardson House, one of the oldest wood frame structures in Glendale. And Forest Lawn Memorial Park where MJ is buried!

We ended at Los Feliz’s India Sweets and Spices for some last minute Ice Cream.  Our bikes were happy next to the cans of tomatoes.

Took a nice ride from Pasadena to Eagle Rock, taking the Colorado Street Bridge, which overlooks the Arroyo Seco Freeway Bridge.

Seafood City in the Eagle Rock Plaza Shopping Center.  So many aunties.

Cooked up some philipino longganisa sausages at Ashley and Co.’s Castle Crag.

Headed down to street for the Eagle Rock Music Festival.

Free tacos and dancing at Rantz Auto Center.  Best stage of the night.

Biked and met up with Avishay and Zoe in Echo Park’s El Prado.  We took a drive Downtown to check out how Occupy LA was going. 

Over to the LA State Historic for Burning Man Decompression.  We couldn’t get in.  

So we headed to the Pantry Cafe for some breakfast food and the best sourdough grilled bread in the city.  Too bad it was also 2pm, so we were the only sober ones in the establishment.  Apparently, adjacent LA Live has a lot of clubs now.  So we were blessed with neighboring conversations about the various methods of stabbing people.  Great atmosphere.

Overall, a nice 11 mile day, filled with hipsters, hippies, and ravers.  Los Angeles.

Donald got a baby bike trailer.  And he has a surfboard.  So he wanted to bike to Venice Beach, with the surfboard in the baby trailer, to surf.  13.4 miles ensued with Donald and Avishay.  Started at Cafecito Organico.

West on 4th St., South on Cochran, West on 8th St, South on Hauser, allllllll the way down Venice Blvd.

We got to Venice Beach.  And Donald decided not to surf.  Alas.  So we biked back home, taking Santa Monica Blvd, the entire way.  Mistake.  Especially if you have an extra wide baby trailer, with a wind-dragging surfboard sticking out of it.

rethinkLA recently curated an exhibit at the A+D Museum called “Perspectives on a Future City” which envisions LA 50 years in the future.  As part of their month-long exhibit, rethinkLA hosted a Moving Beyond Cars Party, encouraging guests make the evening a car-free event.  I met up with Ron Milam at the Echo Park Film Center at Sunset and Alvarado, and set out on our bikes with Ben, Donald, and Avishay to Museum Row.

W. on Sunset Blvd.

L. Coronado St. -> R. Bellevue Ave. -> L. London St. -> L. Vendome St. -> R. Beverly Blvd.

R. Commonwealth Ave.  One of the few brick paved roads in the city, with a great view at the top of the road.

W. on 1st St. -> L. Bimini Pl.

Took a short stop at the LA Eco-Village where Ron lived for 9 years.  The Bicycle Kitchen was also started here - in the kitchen unit of #110.

S. Bimini Pl. -> R. 2nd St. -> L. Vermont Ave.

Convergence of Bike, Cars, and Buses.

R. 4th St.

Passed the Korean Philadelphia Presbyterian Church, or Temple Sinai East, historical monument #91.

Ran into some friends on 4th St. who were also headed over to the Beyond Cars Party.  Cat Campion!

For the most part, 4th St. is a pretty rideable artery to get to LACMA and Museum Row.  EXCEPT for 4th St. at Highland Ave.  They need to have a cross walk or crossing lights.  

L. Cochran Ave. -> R. 6th St. -> L. Curson Ave. -> R. Wilshire Blvd.

The 110 from Pasadena to Downtown LA reinvisioned.

7 Miles.  From the Echo Park Film Center to the A+D Museum.  The ride back was better, mostly because of the stop at Juanita’s Tacos on Western and 3rd.

biked from sunset/pch to leo carillo with Donald.  24 miles. i should’ve put sunblock on my lower back.

Clay’s dad was visiting from OR.  He didn’t understand the complexity, or hype, of Hummus.  He tried to eat it with a cracker.  Clay insisted he use pita bread instead.

clay gave us a ride back.  we fit all 3 bikes into the trunk. 

el gran burrito

Everett Park in Echo Park.  with Avishay, his mom and dad, and Amanda.

Purple Rain