Living in Los Angeles Car Free

we walked to work today we haven't done that in a while. our place is 3.8 miles (according to google maps) from my office and although the route we take is not the prettiest to walk to, it is the fastest so that is why we always take it we do go through echo park lake which i love so much  here are a few of other interesting things i saw while on our way to dtla dtla skyline from the park an abandoned skate board  a pretty wall  this newish art on the wall of the bob baker theater  bob baker marionette theater   we passed the vista hermosa park another of my favorites that i never go to :(  the only flowers i saw on the way  and then we decided to get a bike to be a little faster because we didn't leave home on time  i got a fitbit for my birthday and then surprised ryan with this gem which i found at one of my favorite vintage/gift shops  in dtla it is a walk-a-matic pedo...

one of the things i like most about walking is that i feel so connected to the city when i first moved to la i was not working and i occupied most of my time in exploring the city, i learnt a lot from this, like how to move around or where to find the things i was interested in. now i don't have time to explore except for the weekends but now i don't wander as much as i would like. instead i relish in the small walks i take daily while commuting or when i go places after work. but even though they are small, they still have a big impact on my life: they make it better. the other day i was talking about this with ryan and he mentioned he had read an article in  planning magazine that he thought i would like because it was about the same subject. i am not a planner, i am simply a person who uses public spaces so i don't know much about it, but i do know how having an interaction with the city makes a difference in my life. the article was titled: planning for cities of a...

i know the name of this blog makes reference to walking in los angeles it even has la la on its name, but sometimes we walk in other places, so i thought i'd share our experience of walking in the deep south. when i was 17 years old i moved to gautier ms and lived there for a year as an exchange student. i was a senior in a small catholic school in pascagoula and it was that year when i met my now husband. i've been back many times ever since i was 17 but now that i am married to somebody from there i go every 2 years (sometimes more, every 2 years is not enough!) for the holidays. i always tell the story of how when i used to talk to my mom over the phone she would say "well you can just walk there" and i would laugh and then explain to her that there were no sidewalks. i think the cities there still have a long way to go (in terms of urban planning) you definitely cannot survive without a car there, transit is almost non existent and until this day not every neigh...