My day started with a 5 mile run along Venice Beach boardwalk, its one of the things that makes me happiest, having time it just enjoy the run and not have to dash back to get to be office on time. I start to come to the realization that Venice Beach essentially just smells of urine and weed. I did notice this yesterday but now it's really apparent and there are LOTS of homeless people here. It's actually quite sad really as while I was running I realized that t...

Once again woken up by those freaky crows! I was up and on the road by 7am, I wanted to get another quick hike in before leaving the area, so I stopped at Black Rocks, for a short but hilly 2 mile hike (High View). I once again had the desert to myself and the smell of the pine trees was invigorating and it sent me on my way to LA very refreshed. I am honestly getting on well with this driving and I'm actually quite enjoying it, the 3 hour ride seemed to go real...

So it rained last night, that's got to be rare in the summer in the desert, my little earth pod kept me dry and warm (er a little too warm to be honest) and I was woken at sunrise by crows (little freaky). I made my way into the State park as there was a guided walk at 9am I wanted to take to learn about the area and as the park is large and I had no idea where I was going I needed to give myself plenty of time to get to the right place. A $15 entry per vehicle ...

Happy 4th July. While everyone else was no doubt partying and cooking up a storm, I took the Palm Spring Aerial Tramway to the top(ish) of Mount San Jacinto where i was told it would be much cooler due to its altitude (8516 ft). It was a spectacular 10 minute ride in the cable car which rotated 360 degrees whilst climbing up the mountain side and is only one of three in the world that can do this, well I was impressed :) At the top the views were spectacular. O...

My day started with an early 4 mile run, again along the Harbour front but this time in the other direction to Tuesdays run (weird thing with me is if I'm in a new place and do a run in one direction I have to also make sure I go the other way as well to make sure I did not miss anything!) Packed up and moved on from the hostel, pleased I stayed, but really looking forward to having my own room at the next place. The rental car pick up was really easy as the pub...