The shortest bike ride in the world.
In the background plays a track entitled S.P.A.T., which I’m sure is an acronym for something (although goodness knows what). It’s an instrumental track by the artist Badly Drawn Boy, who I first saw at Largo a few years back. His music is surprisingly coherent and accessible, and provides a fantastic background music that is both introspective and highly melodic! For anyone who saw the wedding video I put together for my sister Jenna, one of his songs was featured during that slide-show.
Anyway, Saturday night, I was bike riding in Venice and randomly ran into the bass player from Me and the Enemies, the band I was in two years ago. He and I hadn’t seen each other since that time, so we agreed it would be cool to go biking at some point. So last night, I drove down to his place in Venice, loaded up his bike, and we drove to the top of Mulholland Highway, a winding road in the hills north of Malibu. The view was stunning, and the air was cool and crisp, and so with great expectation, we parked the car, unloaded our bikes and got set to go. Unfortunately, no sooner had we unloaded than we realized that my friend had a 100% flat tire, and without a new tube or even an air pump, we were fresh out of luck. So needless to say, we had a nice drive through the Malibu hills that evening which we supplemented with a short hike in one of the state parks just north of one of the beaches, and ended the evening with some amazing New York style thin pizza from a little pizza shop right on the PCH.
Anyway, it was still fun nonetheless, but next time, I hope to do just a little more peddling.
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