TRIPS Monday: Venus or Venice Blvd.? Both Are Hot as Hell

Faced with yet another temporary closure of a portion of the metro Blue Line in L.A. for Exposition Line construction, yours truly chose not to bike/shuttle bus the gap in pursuit of a beach bike ride in either Long Beach or the South Bay. Rather, I decided to see how far I could get in biking to the Westside beach area, with very little time available to me on Sunday. I used this L.A. County Bicycle Coalition map to find the the best, quietest, least traffic-filled route on a very sunny, hot afternoon, as well as this L.A. Metro Bike Map:  this map.

First Leg (train): Universal City metro to Hollywood and Highland....helped very nice mother and daughter British tourists, and took train one-stop to Hollywood.

Second Leg (surface streets...Hwood to Venice Blvd.): Exit and head west/south on Orange to De Longpre; west on DeLongpre two-three blocks to Sycamore; left/south on Sycamore a long way through beautiful pre-World War II apartments territory to 4th St.; right/west on 4th to Cochran, a few blocks down; left/south on Cochran to Venice Blvd....and that's as far as I got. Turned around and returned home. Hot and tired, and needing to get home to walk dogs, I made the trip back to home...

Third Leg....To Be Continued...Next time: proceed right/west/south on Venice Blvd. to the ocean.