Ian Whitcomb ventures down Lake Avenue to El Monte, Yorba Linda and Laguna

Next morning, August 3, 1991, I was up with the lark in my Altadena bungalow home and getting equipment ready for the paseo. Smeaton and Eytel in 1911 took a whole heap of equipment such as horses, saddles, saddlebags, mess kit and cooking tackle, hatchet and guns and ammo, plus sketchbooks, notebooks, and "a volume or two." I was traveling much lighter: some maps, my Access card, a pad of lined legal paper plus lots of rolling-writer pens, and my ukelele (you never know when a song is necessary).