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...