19June06 Monday

19June06 Monday

Today we went out to breakfast at a pancake house next to the Palo Verdes Inn and had an excellent breakfast.  Joe and I got the bikes out of the furnace room at the hotel where they keep them.  We headed down to the beach on the bikes and got on the bike path for our ride down the beach.  The paved path is really great for walking, biking, roller blading, etc.   It's about 10 feet wide with a center line to maintain traffic directions.  There was little traffic on the path until later in the afternoon but since it was Monday we didn't have to worry too much about traffic.  We rode from where the path begins at Redondo Beach north to Marina Del Ray which is about 15 miles.  Along the way you go past probably a couple hundred volleyball courts on the sand beaches, a huge power generating plant, a city campground filled with RV's, under the approach for the main runways for LAX, and enough other diversions to keep you interested. 

Along the way we passed the handmade wooden bicycle in the attached photo also the one man submarine. 

Joan and Bev met us at a restaurant in the Marina Del Ray area called the Warehouse.  The place had a lot of atmosphere and we ate out on the porch area overlooking the marina filled with sailboats and a blue sky background.  The Warehouse apparently was the site where the restaurant scene was filmed in the movie Meeting the Fockers.  They had a lot of photos of movie stars photographed in the restaurant hanging on the walls.

Joe and I made it back to Redondo Beach completing about 30 miles on the bikes about 6PM and had tea with Joan and Bev.  Joan and Bev raved about the napoleons served there.  Apparently they have them shipped in from Italy. 

After Joan applied the icepack to the body part I sit on things were fine once again (just kidding).