Venice Beach

Last week, I explored Venice Beach some more during my daily run on Santa Monica Beach. This time there were more vendors selling all sorts of souvenirs and other handmade crafts along the beach. There were stores as well that sold t-shirts, trinkets, sunglasses, hats, etc. There was even a few stores that sold "medical weed," maybe this is why the entire place smelled like pot. I still can't get over the fact that marijuana is semi-legal here, as long as you are prescribed it. There were a lot of odd people in Venice, some homeless, some just straight crazy. I saw this one man on a bicycle, go up to another man who was minding his own business, and screamed some unintelligible words at him while slapping and grabbing his own ass. Weird. A majority of the people inhabiting Venice Beach, were very eccentric and artsy. People with loud and strange outfits, dreadlocks, piercings, tattoos and other similar body art. I definitely felt a little out of place. Oh, and it was absolutely nothing like Venice, Italy. Venice, CA < Venice, Italy

Skater boyfriends.

In this picture above, you can kind of see all the vendors set up on the beach. I was on the beach side, and they are set up along the walking path next to all the shops.