Walking in LA the great walkabout episode 1

As most of my friends know, I LOVE to walk around in cities.  I feel like you don't really get to know a place driving it as much as you do walking around ducking in wherever you feel like.  With a likeminded buddy I recently did a 10 mile walk from Santa Monica to west hollywood.  The route wasn't ideal, but it was a good first go.  I decided to put together a google map to document it.


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We were hustling a bit too much to completely enjoy it, but it was still a ton of fun and a good trial run for next time.

After the walk we were picked up by a friend and whisked off to oinkster for pastrami before the Avey Tare show in Eagle Rock.

On the road again

Once more into the breech, yes I'm traveling for work again. This time it's a lot easier since it's on this continent I get to come back for weekends, but traveling to Mexico City is not without digestive pitfalls, and unfortunately cipro came into play as Moctezuma exacted his revenge. On the plus side I did have some amazing meals when I was down there. The biggest standouts were two different sets of duck tacos. At Izote ,a contemporary Mexican fusion restaurant in Polanco on the Mexico City equivalent of Rodeo Dr, I had these super rich duck mole tacos. The mole was sweet and heavy, and the duck was juicy and tender. The food was great, but the experience was fantastic since he restaurant had the kind of service you can only get in developing nations. Every 2 minutes or so the corn tortillas would be replaced with a new piping hot set whether I had eaten any or not. There was also someone basically just hovering outside of eyesight in case we should want anything.


The second great set of duck tacos were at a lunch place near the old tibco office in reforma area. They were duck carnitas with a healthy amount of chopped onion and cilantro. I was a little surprised with both since I don't consider duck to be traditionally Mexican food, but both meals were the kind of delicious where you can't help but thinking about it the day after.