Good morning America!

by Ewcyna


Jak to szło? It never rains in southern California.. Well, muszę zdementować. Los Angeles w drugiej połowie kwietnia wita mnie pochmurnym niebem i dość rześką aurą. Ale najważniejsze, że ja i mój bike dotarliśmy w całości! Składam go na lotnisku i po prostu ruszam jakby nie było w nieznane. Well, może nie jest to aż tak proste – wyjazd z lotniska jest owszem, może i łatwy, ale dla kierowców czterech, a nie dwóch kółek. Nie odważam się zatem wjechać na dookołalotniskowe estakady. Informacji Turystycznej brakL, ale dzięki radom lokalsów udaje mi się jakoś wydostać z LAX. Extremely useful turn out to print maps, I prepared myself that preventive home. This is a small digression on the trip - before you go looking for information nt long. what airlines are friendly, or at least not torment of life as cyclists who want to carry your velocipede and do not pay extra for that fortune. It is true that my bike has traveled with me several times, but it was always within the European low-cost carriers or LOT. Travelling overseas I put on British Airways and honestly recommend these lines. The ticket purchased in economy class allow substantial kg baggage limit – you can take with you free of charge on board backpack / bag, 20 kg (!) baggage (fact, there is a limit size) and 23 kg. broadcast. Charging the bike bag with your sleeping bag, tent and other such utensyliami, I do not manage to pay extra and do nothing.

Deliberately flew a few days before the other wyprawowiczami BaltiCCycle 2012, to have more time to settle, no i just visit Los Angeles. The first night I spend on American soil rather unusual, because on a boat in a marina in Marina del Rey, as a guest of Mike – Boy with organizations Warmshowers (www.warmshowers.org), whose aim is to assist cyclists bound for a warm shower or would be overnight. Great stuff! Although I am just beginning my journey, However, after spending several hours on the plane I need a shower, a lot.. Then the 3 nights I move to Adrienne – This delightfully, although age housewife with Servasu. It has 82 years and is very open to the world and people. A lot of talking and I impression, we know for a long time.

In L.A. I spend 5 day and though it may shame to admit it, but especially not seeing.. being the first time in the U.S. and is immediately on the west coast on a bicycle circling the city and soak up the local atmosphere. Palette to the Sunset Boulevard, Rodeo Drive, Beverly Hills and the like famous addresses, at which live in fortified mansions U.S. celebrities - You can like or not, but in my opinion it is worth to be here and feel the glare. Tori Spelling and the cops did not meet. Centre's Hollywood in general but I was very disappointing – famous avenue of stars is a simple sidewalk, which could have overlooked. Grauman's Chinese Theatre, before which so eager to photograph the stars, leaving imprints of their hands just as I pass going the other side of the street.. I see for the Kodak Theatre which hosts the annual gala award Oscars, or Academy Awards. During this venture into here and there ill calculates the distance to be traveled (Eh, These miles) and lands late in the evening on the dismal streets, which turns a lot of suspicious cronies .., One of them looked at me with surprise and politely reminds: "It's dangerous outta here madam""I know" answer by pressing harder on the pedals.

Nadoceaniczną district of Venice Beach, where we stay with the team CROTOS, You can call it whatever “shenanigans”. The proximity of the ocean is nice, but gather here the youth and hippie flew Society. All in all it is good zoabaczyć, but straganiarsko-spelunkowe environment is not my cup of tea. I have the impression, with L.A. a Spanish-speaking city, here a lot of visitors from Mexico and other countries not in the Americas. They even its name – Angelenos. This is not how it turns out, a paradise on earth - a city "boasts" one of the biggest indicators of air pollution per year, a period of smog remains here from May to October. Not to mention earthquakes..

This is why, What I really like here (and in general in the United States as we shall see) is the wide streets and the fact, the driver does not drift rowerzystek.. what the bikers do not speak up:). Do not honk, not teach, przepędzają not and do not come up on such-owakich. Waiting patiently, until Aug. man przetarabani, though long since by the colossal cars swept out of the way. The walkways are well-shaped and there are no obstacles in the form of "umilających" life curbs. In a word - in my opinion, is a paradise for cyclists.

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