LA DWP Light Festival

Last night Alexey and I celebrated the start of the Christmas season by hopping on his vespa and riding it through the Griffith Park Light Festival sponsored by LA DWP. The line to enter the park was HUGE! Two lanes of grid-lock traffic for more than an hour. But we cut our travel time to 20 minutes by lane-splitting right up the middle of all those suckers in cars and SUVS. One driver even yelled "Cheater!!" out his window at us. To that I say, Absolutely Buddy! We were cheating the system and it felt great! Turn in your SUV and get a scooter and you could do the same. FYI, all you non-Californians, lane-splitting is 100% legal here. So we buzzed to the front of the line and enjoyed all the twinkling lights and Christmas music on the P.A. system. The photo is a shot from the walking tour only night of the light festival. Imagine it bumper to bumper gridlock. And then imagine a little scooter with two goofballs riding down the middle of the lanes!