Amanda and I picked up her new bicycle today. Then we decided to take a ride down the bike bath that runs along the beach from Venice to Santa Monica.


This isn't the bike path - this is just a park that runs along 1st in Santa Monica. You can't tell from this photo, but it gives the best view of the ocean - just to the right of us is a cliff that drops down a good hundred feet to the beach below...


This isn't exactly where it happened, but Amanda and I were riding side by side when two pigeons walked in front of my tire - the first one had no problem dodging us but the pigeon to my right went crazy and flew, I kid you not, a foot from my face. I saw my life flash before my eyes, I only wish I had it on camera - the look on my face must have been sheer terror.










Amanda and I just chilled under the Venice Pier for a while watching the wind kick up some big waves. The camera has a bit of delay when you take a picture - so I could never snap it at the right moment, but many times the water would hit against the beams so hard it would shoot up as high as the bottom of the dock.


I think is so smart on the city's part - they've put up walls everywhere for people to graffiti, they even let people do the sidewalks and bike paths - I'm assuming as long as it's nothing obscene it's okay.


Here's just another day in Venice on the boardwalk - always lots of people, always a great atmosphere to be in.


I don't know if you can make it out - but that mound the guy is leaning next to is an eight foot long alligator made from sand.


These are the greatest. I had to jump up and grab the first ring with both hands and then have Amanda give me a shove to get started - but once you get going, you can swing from one ring to the other like a monkey.


This is the walkway that runs under the Santa Monica Pier, you can't tell in the picture but the walls of it look very pirate-ship'ish.


This was a very awkward picture to take - I'm completely turned around while riding, not paying any attention to wear I'm heading.