Alleys of Long Beach

Among the beach, store fronts, bike paths, and vistas Long Beach offers, they also have a wide array of alleys open for exploration. At night they seem mysterious, in the day they're smelly shortcuts, and by bicycle they seem like dangerous islands of safety, if that makes any sense.

This a close alley, the one we feel like is "ours":



Here's an alley intersection:



This is the other nearby alley to our place: