Living in Los Angeles Car Free

i really think the only reason why ryan decided to look for an apartment in echo park was because he wanted to be close to the dodger stadium... well maybe not the only reason, but i can bet anything it was a strong one. now we don't live in echo park anymore (however we couldn't move too far from it, only a few miles away in silverlake) in any case we are still very close to the stadium and we do go a few games each season. i am not a baseball fan, even though i grew up watching it. the mexico part where i am from does not do soccer, i know shocking. to be honest i am not fan of any sport, but i do enjoy going to the games, i like to drink the super expensive beer, people watch and have a crappy but delicious veggie dog. if you have been to a dodger game (or live in the area for that matter) you know how bad traffic gets. sunset gets crazy and just going up the now called vin scully ave. is a nightmare. driving your car to a game is a no no and not only getting there is the

we usually try to stay in our triangle area. we like to go places between home and our work offices (home being silverlake, work being DTLA) the reason i prefer to stay close to the neighborhoods we work and live is because los angeles is a very sprawling city and with that comes traffic... so yes it's hard to visit all and try to keep yourself sane. so i rather not push myself too much. however once in awhile we do venture a little further. a few weekends ago we went to north hollywood. our beautiful friend Hillary was having her short film premiered at the california women's festival. we were so excited for her and we couldn't miss it. so of course we rode the bus to our nearest red line station and took the train all the way there. we hopped off one stop before to go to this restaurant i have been dying to try and then took a bus to north hollywood to watch the show. on our way back the whole party (Hillary, her fiance and all her friends) took the red line to 7th sta

ryan and i riding metro bike share on main and 3rd i am not a los angeles native i've been living here for 3 1/2 years and i've never driven in los angeles i don't even have a license! ryan and i live a car free life in this"car-centric city" when i tell people (who are not city planners) that we don't drive everywhere, they usually think we are either weird or crazy... what does that mean? i am not sure but i think i am neither i just prefer to use transit, walk or ride my bike... and sometimes uber, which i must admit saves ryan a lot of tired/drunk sofi fuss :) recently, i read an article on a blog (that i thought was amazing; however after the article, not so sure) about this woman who "tried"walking in los angeles for a week. i say "tried" because what i read was that she just mostly rode in her friends cars (and uber) and hardly talked about what she saw while walking. her conclusion was even: "a person really cann