Stan’s Obligatory Blog

It’s the Sunday before Halloween, and time for our annual “Down for the Count” ride. This is a trip to Holy Cross Cemetery in Culver City to visit Bela Lugosi’s grave. This was one of the first themed rides we ever did, back in 2007.

One the way out, we stopped briefly in Exposition Park to see the progress on the Oschin Space Center building. The rest of the ride to Culver City was pretty straightforward, aside from a flat tire on the way out and one on the way back. We stopped in at Grand Casino Bakery for drinks and snacks. It was a perfect day for riding.

56 miles

Route map and elevation profile

This week we heard that the Big Boy statue in front of their Downey restaurant was mangled in a car crash, the restaurant painted him green and put some foam brains spilling out of his broken head. So that was the ride destination for this Sunday. We also had heard yesterday that the Columbia space museum in Downey was moving a full-sized model of the Space Shuttle for display at the museum. So we figured we’d go by there and see if it was parked there.

The route was our standard route for doing south to Downey. We stopped briefly at the oldest operating McDonald’s. They have a little museum there about the history of the company, and also, they have bathrooms. Then we went a bit farther south to the Columbia museum, but there was no sign of the shuttle model. Then we went for snacks at 3rd St Coffee in downtown Downey. Then straight home, basically by the same route we took to get there.

43 miles.

Route map and elevations profile