What if the hipsters in San Diego made the ultimate sacrifice to don even tighter jeans, (than usual) show more skin than their cut-off jean shorts currently reveal, and decided to grow more daring moustache [...]
Are you looking for a fun way to spend a Sunday afternoon? Recall that everyday the streets of LA are clogged with traffic; so this event makes it that more special. On Sunday, October 9th, [...]
Last night, I received an email from the Santa Monica Spoke, a regional chapter of the Los Angeles County Bicycle Coalitionan organization dedicated to improving bicycle conditions and the concomitant infrastructure required to support the [...]
Really all you need is your sun hat, cover up, outfits for dinner, a bikini and a bike. Wheels and water really mean bikes and bikinis here! Here, it’s so easy to just drop back [...]
Now celebrating its 17th year, Bike Week LA (formally Bike to Work Week). is the place and chance for everyone who commutes by car to become familiar with using bicycles to get work–or anywhere else–to [...]
That’s right – It’s the bike. With 1.2 billion currently in use, bicycles out-number cars around the world by 800,000. The above information came via an info-graph entitled Getting Around: Although bikes are the world’s [...]
We all know which rules to abide by when we go to a wildlife preserve. Usually, that means that picnics, bikes and pets are usually not part of the experience. So we typically share the [...]
This past October, the first fun and communal CicLAvia event took place. In case you don’t know what CicLAvia is, it’s a day when certain streets are all closed for motor vehicles—no cars allowed! Along [...]
To work off the extra calories I gained over the Thanksgiving Day weekend, last Sunday I decided to work up a sweat at one of Los Angeles’ hidden treasures– San Vicente Mountain Park. Located just [...]
A stream of walkers, joggers and bikers all flowed along the Bay’s trail, as snowy egrets stand regally in the midst of the Newport Back Bay wetlands, one of the largest and most pristine in [...]
Travelin’ Local typically avoids political topics, but the California State Park Initiative, aka Prop 21, needs attention because it affects our leisure activities and lifestyles. It’s a new initiative–called the State Parks and Wildlife Conservation [...]
Fall is almost here and as the weather is starting to cool down, so now’s the perfect time to spend some time in our beautiful parks that we’re blessed with. Although, we may not have [...]
I love to mix it up and do several recreational activities all in one afternoon. Call it a bit weird, but I’m of the school of “Work Hard-Play Hard,” so when I have the chance, [...]
In 1995, the then Commissioner of New York City’s Department of Transportation, Elliot Sander, with the support of then USDOT Deputy Secretary Mortimer Downey, reached out to their counterparts in Boston, Chicago, Los Angeles, and [...]
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