{"id":401,"date":"2008-06-14T21:10:05","date_gmt":"2008-06-15T04:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/?p=401"},"modified":"2009-05-24T11:42:35","modified_gmt":"2009-05-24T18:42:35","slug":"venice-beach","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alephnaught.com\/Blog\/2008\/06\/14\/venice-beach\/","title":{"rendered":"Venice Beach"},"content":{"rendered":"
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We decided to take the dog down to Venice Beach – it was hitting over 90 degrees in the Valley and it was only in the mid 70s at the water front, and we’d heard that Venice Beach was still a hippie holdover from the ’60s.<\/p>\n

I liked it. We walked perhaps a quarter of the boardwalk, talked with a bunch of people and had a fun time. We stopped and ate some ice cream. There were people of all kinds out – some in speedos showing off their muscles (there is a workout facility on the beach), women walking around in tiny bikinis, and lots of skateboards, bikes and rollerblades.<\/p>\n

We tried to visit two art galleries but parking was really hard to find (we’d already paid $15 to park near the boardwalk and didn’t want to pay again – if you visit, expect to pay for parking). We stopped at the local public library to use their restrooms, and we ate dinner at a Chinese restaurant call the Wacky Wok. The food was okay – my Szechuan chicken was quite sweet, which was a little strange.<\/p>\n

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A view of the beach from the Speedway, an alley that runs parallel to the coast<\/p>\n

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Lots of cool murals on walls – keep your eyes open for them!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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We decided to take the dog down to Venice Beach – it was hitting over 90 degrees in the Valley and it was only in the mid 70s at the water front, and we’d heard that Venice Beach was still a hippie holdover from the ’60s. I liked it. We walked perhaps a quarter of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[153,8,143,403],"tags":[2350,2355,181],"class_list":["post-401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-los-angeles","category-personal","category-travel-foreign","category-united-states","tag-art","tag-travel-foreign","tag-venice-beach"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t