The long way to the water

latennisguy said:

how much did you enjoy the walk?

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The part from Downtown to Rodeo Drive was quite easy, but after I switched from Wilshire Boulevard to Santa Monica Boilevard, it began to become harder and harder. My feet and legs started aching more and more. The problem is that I had quite a heavy backpack with me. Even today I am not able to walk properly, so I will stay in Downtown most of the day. For the rest of my journey, I will use busses and subway whereever I can.

I don´t think that this walk was a very good idea. Maybe for people with better feet. If somebody can run the more than 25 miles of a marathon, this walk would not be a big problem. I am not somebody who can run a marathon. That walk was the hardest think I have ever done. When i was in Chicago last year, I walked from Ohio Street in Downtown up to Loyola University. That distance was not too hard, so I thought that I could do a longer walk this time. No I know that this walk was really to long for me.

I know friends who have walked from the top of Manhattan down to the bottom which is 13 miles. I just Goolged mapped this and it comes out to be 15 miles, sort of Manhattanish.
Question:
You arrive at the beach at 18:55 initially but then you walk again for another 30 minutes but you are still at the beach at 19:33. What's going on?

I was almost dead when I arrived, so I took a last break. You might also notice the 41 minutes between the first two photos, although there are only a few blocks between them. Taking photos can take lots of time.

Yes, the direct way would be about 15 miles, but as I wanted to take photos of as many highrise building as I could, I had to switch to 7th street and back many times to always get the sunny side of the buildings. Additionally I walked along Rodeo Drive and back and through Century City. I found out the exact lenght of my walk with the "Measure" function of Google Earth. Maybe I should have taken the direct way and saved five miles.