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how to ride sheep hills in Huntington beach, SOCal Work for a while. If you haven't already got a job, try www.fish4.co.uk . Once you've saved about £900 (or less, depending on how long you want to stay) book yourself a flight from Manchester to LAX on www.ebookers.co.uk and box your bike up, and you can get a train to Manchester airport ( www.virgintrains.com ) just as soon as you've got yourself a reservation at the Colonial Inn Hostel on Pecan and Eighth in Huntington Beach - www.surfcityhostel.com for that. Do all the usual airport stuff, then when you are are spat out the other end you'll find yourself in Inglewood. Catch the LA Metro thing (your bike is STILL BOXED UP!), making sure not to make eye contact with anyone till you reach Long Beach. Get off at the last stop and head all the way down the road you're on till you reach Ocean Blvd. Now read to the transit mall and wait at bus stop G (I think) at the transit mall and wait for an OCTA bus ( www.octa.net ) no. 60. That should take about half an hour depending on the time of day. Now once the bus comes, flag it down and wait for it to draw to a stop. Step in front of it and pull the handle on the bike rack up and forwards to let it down. Lock your bike onto it by lifting that padded bar over your front wheel. Board the bus and purchase a ticket ($1) and grab a timetable (free, you'll need that later) and ride the bus till it reaches 7th and Chanel. Hop off there, and walk across to the bus stop on the other side of the road, where you're going to get on an OCTA no.1. Ride that for maybe 45 minutes till you reach ninth street in Huntington beach (hop off a bit later at the Main St. Bus stop if you fancy a tasty subway meal). Ride your bike past about five streets until you see a big wooden yellow building on your left. Enter. The hot girl you might see on the desk is Tatchi, Otherwise you're confronted with Mo or Otto. Book yourself in for a week (special rate, $100) and go and meet your room mate. If it's six, seven thirty or eleven o'clock, stick Fox (channel eleven) on and watch The Simpsons. Otherwise, play foosball downstairs or follow main up till you reach Albertsons (on Warner and Main). Get yourself some tasty chow and if you're obscenely lucky, then your shopping bags will be filled by Troy. He is seriously fucked in the head and I doubt he has made any career advancements since I was there. Head back to the Hostel and try and get an early night. Next morning, grab your bike and ride down to the PCH (the main road you got off the bus on) now you'll be wanting to ride down that for time (probably five or six miles) until you arrive at Brookhurst st. Head up there till you see a Jack in A Box (or maybe a Del Taco) on your right. Go over the bridge next to the Jack and when you see a gate on your right, chuck your bike over it. Now climb over and ride your bike towards the gap in the bushes. Ride along that track for a while and there is sheep in all it's glory. Remember to bring water and sunblock. Someone at sheep will tell you other good places to ride, of which there are many. |
