Christmas Day 2020 eBike ride La Paz Baja Sur California

Merry Christmas to All!  People here are reaching out to make me feel included as much as they can during this time of CV, nice! Chocolate bars and beers distributed with care.   

Got a early start for bike ride. Roads empty, town quiet. Drive the Tundra 25 miles to town, with eBike in back. Still wary of parking and leaving my truck, I park next to a pleasant neighborhood park and unload the bike.

Rode again along the Malecon (La Paz's beach boardwalk), this time all the way through town, past the end of the green bike path, towards the industrial ship docks.

But first took a detour into town, past the cathedral and circled the large fancy newish sports center, soccer field & baseball field, Most well kept block in the city. Riding the streets I'm especially careful at intersections, 4 way stops are a mere suggestion. Riding happily along I received a shock of flying over a large unmarked step. Yes, that goes on my list of watch-out-fors right below  the watch-for-one-ways- that-turn-into-two-way-streets.  Pedaling up a steep coast cliff road I enter a closed-today recreation park complete with groomed beaches and zip lines across the ocean to the end of pier. I spy a lone swimmer at the rec center beach, she apparently rode her scooter past the barricades away from the cliff, no parking roadside, make a note of that.

Rounding a corner there is a flurry of activity and blinking emergency lights, someone crashed through a previously-attractive rock retaining wall making a mess of things.  Riding on I make a video of a downhill segment.  (not really a earthquake,  just rough road and windy)

I see a funny looking palm tree.

 Through the tourist district.  Then on pass the Mexican Navy base with ancient minesweeper, I think WWI, no...later Wikipedia says WWII, this one with 5 Battle stars.

P113 Ignacio L. Vallarta Originally USS Velocity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auk-class_minesweeper https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USS_Velocity_(AM-128) 

 Back to the start of my ride, a view back towards town, the derelict building is not tipping,  something to do with my Apple iphone camera.

Fancy school(?) building

 Then this 7 year old monument to unfinished projects. Here in Mexico that are many unfinished projects, speculation abounds to the reasons for this. My favorite theories are; Drug lords taken down mid-project, mob interference, projects started on squatters land then challenged.

Talked to a neighbor to this project.  The Condo tower was finished and fantastic then September 13, 2014: Hurricane Odile struck, blowing out all the windows.  And then it sat,  this year they starting cutting away various parts and cleaning the skeleton.  The plan is to redo it.

"From the smallest necessity to the highest religious abstraction, from the wheel to the skyscraper, everything we are and everything we have comes from one attribute of man - the function of his reasoning mind." ~ Ayn Rand  😏  

Sometimes the reasoning is not complete.  That reasoning should include the question "What if a big hurricane comes along?"

:)