On this day I enjoyed a 7.1 mile solo scooter ride on the San Gabriel River Trail between the Pico Rivera Golf Course and Washington Boulevard.
We’ve had rain for the past several days here in Los Angeles, so the San Gabriel River has many sections today with water from side to side of the river bed, and all the river vegetation looks way greener than usual.
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The solo scooter ride
On this day, there was a window of sunshine from noon to mid afternoon, with a gentle wind blowing up from downstream, which helped on the return, with the hundred feet of elevation change from the starting point to the downstream turnaround at Washington Boulevard.
I passed my cross tracks Northwest Passage from Amigo Park in Whittier to the San Gabriel River Trail, noting for the first time, over the tracks, the upper part of the home plate baseball cage in the park.
Next time I should do my Northwest Passage again from the Whittier side, to be crystal clear about which of the two fence breaks on the trail my path from the baseball field leads to.
Today’s ride was punctuated by two interesting interactions with people.
A Mexican guy named Luis
At the starting point, en route to the rest room at the Pico River Golf Course café, a Mexican guy, Luis, nursing a beer at an outside table inquired about my scooter, with an ensuing discussion about the wheel size, and his story of how he’d had a head injury in an electric scooter mishap in Cleveland the year before.
No E.R. visit. No loss of consciousness. He’d been drunk, he said. As a result of the mishap, he has a one inch diameter depression in his skull. which he allowed me to palpate. A healed depressed skull fracture. Untreated. No neurological evaluation. No X ray. Amazing.
Pablo and Damaris
At my turnaround point, I spoke with a delightful Guatemalan couple, Pablo and Damaris, taking a break from their bicycle ride up from their home in Norwalk.
They operate a hauling business, doing their best to carry out an activity they love for the betterment of our great American society.
About the woman named Damaris
A woman named Damaris is mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles, 17:34, in the Book of Acts, in the Old Testament, where she’s swayed by a speech given by the Apostle Paul. She was made a saint in the Greek Orthodox Church.
Damaris from Guatemala told me her dad told her her name means “Dama de Risa, “ or the “Woman who Smiles.” My kind of people. Welcome to America.
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