Thanksgiving Ride Report

This Thanksgiving was like none other!  We rode over the river and through the woods with dinner on our bike rack.  We prepared fruits and veggies from the garden using a Swiss Army Knife and a Microwave.  Regardless of the warnings about free radicals generated when heating plastic, we steamed the vegetables in Ziploc bags and added the butter after.  We had Eggplant steaks, Parslied potatoes & carrots with sliced garlic, Swiss chard with mushrooms, Spiced baked squash, Sweet onion and whole garlic cloves, and Snitzbrot.  We used only the finest paper plates and plastic cutlery.  We drank tap water with gusto.

It was really amazing because we stayed at the Doubletree on the 10th floor and from our hotel we could look at downtown LA and just barely see Griffith park.  It was daunting to consider the ride home because the day after Thanksgiving we got rained on nearly the entire ride home.  It was super fun riding by the Beverly Center and through Beverly Hills.  Also Fountain Ave bike route was extremely enjoyable.  Loved the Ballona Creek Bicycle Path and the bike lane along Venice Blvd.  It was thanks to CicLAvia that we felt comfortable riding through various parts of LA and for the first time I started to feel like "this is my city."