Walks Part 133

To do this one correctly, you need to start off  early on Saturday morning and you have to live in Venice. You walk over past the Venice Circle and up to the beach and the Boardwalk. You turn right and watch all the vendors opening their stalls. You are early enough so you beat the crowds for breakfast at the Sidewalk Cafe. Then Small World Books behind it and then you stroll. Its about 10-12 blocks to the end of the booths and shops and then you keep walking. It becomes just the beach and play sets and volleyball nets and people passing on bicycles. You soon end up at the pier in Santa Monica, which is worth a walk down and there's a merry-go-round and aquarium and rides further out and the you do a turn through downtown Santa Monica, walk on the Palisades, stroll around the Promenade and hit the other bookstores, there's also the Santa Monica Library over on 6th and stuff to look at. Then you turn south again, come back down by the Santa Monica Auditorium and then you make it over to Main Street

More little shops and a community garden and yoga if you are in the mood. There used to be a couple of thrift stores, but those are long gone.  

You reach Our Lady of Venice. Her legs used to move. And further on 

The Chiat Day offices that belong to someone else now. If you do this right, you've gotten a tan from being out in the sun all day, you've had breakfast and lunch and your feet are tired so you want hit your apartment before finding your friends or your lover for the evening.

I walked this every Saturday for a good year until my life began to change again. The last time was only a few years ago with my nephew and his girl friend and my daughter. We ended up on the bus coming back south from Santa Monica because I had worn them out.