The day started off innocent-looking enough. We would drive down to Mother’s Beach in Marina del Rey, enjoy some BBQ, relax, and then go home. BBQ tasted great (special thanks to our grill-masters, David, James, and Atsuro!). After we had lunch, we looked into renting bikes and riding around the area for a bit – the rental rates per bike were $10 for 1 hour, and $15 for the whole day, and I had every intention of saving the $5. There are several bike paths in that area and we simply started going down one of them (The Strand). With the beach and Pacific Ocean to our right and beautiful beachfront houses to our left, the view from the seat of a bicycle was great! (It must have also been quite a sight to see from the pedestrians’ perspective – what would you think if you saw a column of 15 bikes riding single file along the beach?).
We eventually ended up at Manhattan Beach, where our bicycle gang took a group photo. We were tempted to stop for ice cream, but there was still a 10-mile return trip to do. Everybody got back ok – we even passed by the UCLA Marine Aquatic Center on the trip back! Go Bruins!
Total time: 2.5 hours
Total Distance: 20 miles
Beaches passed through: Dockweiler, Manhattan Beach
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