Fuzzy Bus

Living in a city where it’s possible to move in all directions, and find coffee in every one of them, is one of the great things about Los Angeles. It’s a city that’s built for travel by car, surely, but there are ways of working around that. The street laws for a bike say that you can split lanes, which means the pole position at every light, and this means travel is faster for those who are careful, and lucky. Riding a motorcycle in a city this size takes a little bit of sense and a lot of reflex. Espresso offers both.

Cafe racing is a perfect sport for the urban crawler, especially the ones who never much liked sports anyway. Anything related to pack behavior is anathema to the lifestyle of the care racer, and that’s part of the whole package. To spend a day moving from one coffee shop to another is a reasonable way to live a life, it’s full, and there are plenty of conversations in every place, and sometimes there’s even a little romance. It doesn’t matter how long it takes to get there, eventually, but it’s important to try to get there fast.

The trying is everything. It’s a thing that works with obsession, in all the right ways. Looking at a city from a hotel room , and wondering what it would be like to live in it. Living in a city and wondering what it’s like to be living in the world. Wondering about the streets that get you from here to there, and thinking that there’s a challenge in trying to get back and forth between songs on the jukebox , and it might not matter that this time is short, and these moments are fleeting, because at some points when the afternoon turns into the evening, something in L.A. says that this is all worth it.

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