Day 30 - Malibu, CA to Hermosa Beach, CA - 29.79 miles

Biking through Malibu was fun - kinda like when we bike through Greenwich and admire all the houses we will never be able to afford. Most of the LA flavor that we soaked up came from a slow stroll through the Venice Beach Boardwalk - even on a Tuesday we saw a wide variety of characters. Our only plan for the night was going to the Dodgers game, so when we happened upon a cute street with a 2 for 1 burger deal we decided to have a late lunch, find a place to stay and make our way to Dodgers Stadium. Little did we know what making our way to Dodgers Stadium would entail. It started off with a ride to the bus stop from our generous hotel owner, Amish Patel. Over two hours later, while on our second bus, we hopped out to hail a cab for our last leg of the journey. Hermosa Beach seemed like it was in LA based on our map, but we may as well have been going back to Safeco Field. In an effort to enjoy the game (which we wholly succeeded at), neither one of us mentioned the white elephant in the stadium of how we were going to get home when we left the game and the buses were no longer running. In the 4th inning, Austin got a text from Saif (in response to his text from 2 weeks ago) saying that he now lives in LA and would pick us up. Phew! (Had only one nice Indian given us a ride, dayenu.) It was great to hang out with Saif - be sure to congratulate him on graduating, moving cross-country and landing an elusive architecture job in LA. We can't wait to come back and visit for more than 2 hours.