yO Venice! Im finally uploading pictures from the Abbot Kinney Festival 2010. The mile long street was closed off from cars, allowing only pedestrian traffic from Main St to Venice Blvd, on Sunday September 26. The entire strip was packed with vendors, food trucks, concert stages and beer gardens. If you haven’t been to Abbot Kinney Blvd here in Venice, I suggested you visit. It can easily take an entire day to explore the eclectic mix of 100+ retailers, furniture stores, restaurants and bars.

It was literally shoulder to shoulder for the entire mile of the street

The Brig had an outdoor Do-Over of sorts in their parking lot – I really wish they did this with more regularity

I love modern architecture, but not at the expense of classic historical buildings (and it doesn’t have to be registered to be historical people). This is a great example of a trend that is gaining momentum: preserving the front facade by incorporating it into the modern structure.

New Belgium beer garden – who doesn’t rove Fat Tire?

The joke for today was: it’s finally summer in LA,… but it’s the end of September. Record heat in downtown LA at 113 degrees, breaking the old record of 112 degrees set in June of 1990. There wasn’t even wind blowing on the coast, allowing the temp to reach 105 here on the beaches! The heat did feel good for a change, but I’m glad the day is finally over. A few pics from the evening here on the coast. Smoggy sunset in full effect.

It’s been a long and cold winter here in Southern California. It’s mid-July and it wasn’t until last week that the sun thankfully decided to come out. So friends decided to come over and we biked to Santa Monica for food & dranks. It seemed like all of LA was at the beach. Seriously, I don’t think Ive ever seen this many people physically on the sand at once. It kinda reminded me of those vintage black & white pics where the entire beach is covered with coat & top hat wearing beach goers. On the way back we caught a bit of the Venice Beach portion of the Summer Fix LA Competition sponsored by LA Brakeless. The wifey just got a brand new cruiser and now wants a bright, multi-colored Fixie… grrreat, we don’t even have enough room for all the bikes we currently own.