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Part II: Palos Verdes Peninsula

If you live on the coast of Los Angeles, as I had for 14 years of my life, you begin, after a certain amount of time, to feel trapped by a sea of gray concete all around you. To leave the city, and hope for the silence of the desert, you must contemplate the possibility of gridlock - three hours or more in a car, just to leave a city.

But escape does exist. Only a small fraction of a percentage of any Angeleno takes to it. Head west, into the sea.

For a period of a few years, I managed to slide my orange kayak into the ocean at least three times a week. Always, I would head south from King's Harbor, towards Palos Verdes Peninsula.

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Desert Southwest

Coyote Buttes
Science fiction, flight of the raven, and the Mud Road to Coyote Buttes

Carrizo Plain
Walking Southern California's protected grasslands: Reefs of Pollen on the Carrizo Plain

Colorado Plateau
Mesa to Canyon along the Colorado Plateau.

Death Valley, California
The Saltwater Fish of Dealth Valley

Los Angeles River
Gray River in the Sun: Paddling and Driving the LA River

Slab City
Death and Salvation on the New River

Panamint Valley
Everybody has stayed at a really bad motel: the Panamint Valley Roach Motel

White Sands, New Mexico
Atomic Agriculture on the Rio Grande

Bombay Beach, California
Kayaking the Salton Sea: Bombay Beach and the Salton Sea

Trona, California
Trona and the Unusual Lake Searles

Anza-Borrego Desert
Walking the Barren Borrego

Joshua Tree National Park, California
Four Seasons of the Mojave

Los Angeles Coast
Images and captions from the LA coast.

Las Vegas, Nevada
Observations from traveling Las Vegas by skateboard.

Channel Islands, California
Windblown zoology off the coast of Los Angeles

High Desert, California
Stories from California's High Desert Areas