San Diego Rides

I have an album showing most of the few pictures I took while visiting San Diego last weekend.

Last Week's Rides

Just the usual jaunt down the SGRT from Rynerson Park in Lakewood to Seal Beach. The Falls of the San Gabriel River, this time at or very near high tide. The concrete river bed is about 10 miles long, and this point is about 3 miles or so from the beach.
A white pelican near the Falls.
A sign in Seal Beach at Marina and Pacific Coast Hwy:
Later on, probably tomorrow, I'll post some pictures from last weekend's trip to San Diego.

Alameda

By the time I got to Alameda, there wasn't much time left for a ride before the stitching get-together, but I did get to see a few things of interest. Like this tattered but interesting looking house about a block away from where the GTG (Get ToGether) was held:
Then I started to ride past it and saw the doors:
They don't seem to be using it for anything right now, but like Anaheim (which is at least using theirs for a museum), Alameda has a Carnegie Library building:
And a dyslexic lane marker:
And apparently just one park:
But a charming little cottage complex with an irrestible-to-me name:
The view through the gates:
And a 13th Commandment at the Episcopal Church:
Finally, here's Orion at the beach in Alameda:
I want to go back. I want to see more. And not just of Alameda, but of Santa Clara and San Jose, too. It's so very, very bike-friendly up there!! What's the weather like in December? The Caps have a West Coast road trip which has them at the Shark Tank on December 30.

More Pictures!

They have directional signs up telling you how to get to the Columbia Memorial Space Center, but the facility still wasn't open a week ago when I last rode by there. I'm beginning to think they're never going to open it.
Many many years ago I worked for what was then known as Union Oil Company of California. I saw this plane over near the West Imperial terminal on my ride last weekend:
Next rest stop: Tokyo. The end of Imperial Highway:
And this bridge crosses Torrance Blvd not far from where I work:

A few pictures from recent rides...

A coyote in Coyote Creek, along the eponymous trail.
One of the Navy's blimp hangars in Tustin, seen from the north side:
A heron hunting for breakfast near the San Gabriel River Trail:
The Falls of the San Gabriel River:
Orion in Old Town Tustin, in front of a redwood:
A jacaranda in bloom in El Dorado Regional Park in Long Beach:
A tree trunk I thought looked interesting, Hyde Park, Orange:
A begging squirrel in Rynerson Park, Lakewood:
And if you're going to immortalized a guy in concrete somewhere in Tustin, at least spell his name correctly!

Less Than 12 Miles!!

The BFFs and I went to the Joint Forces Training Base (formally NAS Los Alamitos [the Navy still holds the lease] but currently being run [down] by the Army, hence the name "change") for their annual Independence Day celebration. We had a good time, but on one of my bicycle tours of the base, I got a flat tire. So today I'm off to the bike shop. This is the same tube I had replaced on Thursday. This just sucks out loud!

One of my coworkers is on vacation this week, so I'll be starting work about 11:30 each morning. That gives me about an hour and a half for a ride each morning, unless I opt to go to the gym.

And how is it that gardening seems to use muscles you don't use during strength training?