19.3 miles today, 4,928.1 miles total

Gorgeous Friday…sunny 80 degrees! We drove 9 miles up to the Santa Monica pier then rode our bikes almost 8 miles up the coastal bike path to Will Rogers State Park Beach with friends, Hannah  & Rachel. After a leisurely lunch, we experienced the amazing LA snail’s pace traffic to Sony Pictures Entertainment to get a personal tour from our gracious hostess, Michelle Mignon. “Awesome” kudos to Michelle, she knows what that means!?! “Celebrating Indomitable Spirit.” Who knows, I might apply for one of the medical consultant positions at Sony!?!? We took some more pictures of the amazing sunset from the effects of the huge wildfire just up the coast. Back at our beachside Dockweiller State Park campground site, it’s incredible to see the huge jets going out over or coming  in from the Pacific Ocean on their flight path to & from LAX International Airport.  And then under that technology, to walk among the many firepits on the beach. It’s a physical juxtaposition of pre-dawn man with 21st century technology man.  From LA, m, b, w & t

“If we know exactly where we’re going, exactly how to get there, and exactly what we’ll see along the way, we won’t learn anything. ” –M. Scott Peck

“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving.” –Albert Einstein (1879-1195

“Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.” –Charles M. Schulz (“Peanuts” Snoopy American cartoonist, 1922-2000)

“When the spirits are low, when the day appears dark, when work becomes monotonous, when hope hardly seems worth having, just mount a bicycle and go out for a spin down the road, without thought on anything but the ride you are taking.” ~ Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

“The air up there in the clouds is very pure and fine, bracing and delicious. And why shouldn’t it be? —it is the same the angels breathe.” –Mark Twain (“Roughing It,” Chapter XXII, 1886)

“Whenever I see an adult on a bicycle, I have hope for the human race.” –H.G. Wells