A day on the river, and a little rodeo...

Among the things I like about riding the San Gabriel River Trail is the ability to ride from the mountains to the sea in about 1.5 hours, how you can ride by yourself for a while, then hook on to one of the many groups always riding up or down the trail, or how riding along certain stretches it becomes easy to forget your are in the middle of a massive urban area.

And then there is the little Mexican rodeo arena in the Whittier Narrows area. Saturdays are when they seem to hold events there, and the place being right beside the bike path you can stop and see a little of the riding and roping; maybe listen to the mariachi band for a bit. It wasn't as colorful today; sometimes there will be a group all decked out in their finest duds, big black sombreros, crisp which shirts, black vests, red ties. Pretty sharp looking. Maybe today was a blue-collar rodeo.