What is the Job Corps? I had never heard of the Job Corps before I started following the Treasure Island development. In case you haven’t either, it’s a US Department of Labor program providing ed...

Treasure Island, San Francisco I first heard about the Treasure Island development during my undergrad at UC Berkeley. Somebody came to my class, or came to give an after-class lecture. Rememberin...

Los Angeles I lived in LA for about 6 years, mostly car-free, almost all of that in the Westside neighborhood of Palms. All things considered, Palms is a pretty great spot. About 60,000 people, al...

Editors note: In the interest of timeliness, this post was written before any reports from the prior month or so. I’ll get around to writing those eventually. Days 44 – 51, June 7 – 14, PCT miles ...

April 28 – May 4, PCT miles 436 – 518 I started my first day on the actual PCT with a leisurely breakfast on a picnic table looking out over the canyon I’d worked so hard to climb the day before. ...

Setting out the next morning, I walked straight up Laurel Canyon Boulevard from Valley Village to Sun Valley. I hadn’t spent much time in the San Fernando Valley before, and what time I had spent w...

The stairs up from my apartment felt a bit steeper with the extra weight on my back. Besides that however, the first few miles felt almost ordinary. I joined the Marvin Braude Bike Path northwards ...

In a few short hours I will step out the door of my comfortable apartment tucked into an alley in El Segundo, California. I’ll walk away from the stacks of the refinery, past the towers of a powe...