"Dr. Roy Meals, a longtime hand surgeon, likes to move his feet. He has climbed mountains and he has run three marathons. But when he shared his latest scheme with his wife a couple of years ago, she had a quick take. "You're nuts," she said. Maybe so. He was closing in on 80, and his plan was to grab his trekking poles and take a solo hike along the 342-mile perimeter of Los Angeles."
"To plot his course, Meals unfolded an accordion style map for an overview, then went to navigatela.lacity.org to chart the precise outline of the city limits. The border frames an oddly shaped expanse that resembles a shredded kite, with San Pedro and Wilmington dangling from a string at the southern extremities. Meals divided his trek into 10-mile segments, 34 in all, and set out to walk two segments each week for four months,"
Dr. Roy Meals is a longtime hand surgeon who climbed mountains and ran three marathons. Approaching 80, he planned a solo trek around the 342-mile perimeter of Los Angeles, with occasional companions. He used an accordion-style map and navigatela.lacity.org to trace the city limits, then divided the route into thirty-four ten-mile segments and scheduled two segments per week over four months, starting counterclockwise at the 5,075-foot summit of Mt. Lukens. Motivations included curiosity, restlessness, belief that a city cannot be known from a windshield, desire to stay physically and mentally fit, and a wish to learn more about neighborhoods that housed his patients.
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