Your morning catch up: Big Sur's big summer, what to know about World Cup-related scams and more big stories.
Your morning catch up: Big Sur’s big summer, what to know about World Cup-related scams and more big stories. But the weather is warm and the road is calling.
This is the first summer in three years during which Highway 1 through Big Sur — a cliff-hugging, two-lane roadway with spectacular ocean views — is completely open afterthat, as of May, northbound traffic at Ragged Point, the southern gateway to Big Sur, has risen an eye-popping 900% year-over-year, and local businesses are experiencing their busiest summer in years. Chun, 60, has been riding Highway 1 since he bought his first motorcycle in 1990.
He most recently drove to Big Sur on a 2013 Honda CB500X that mercifully gets about 70 miles per gallon. He kindly answered some of my questions about the drive. Our conversation has been lightly edited for length and clarity.
To be out there with the cool weather and wind and the bike running great, with the stress of the city behind you and the view of this ribbon of asphalt, bright blue ocean, light traffic — they’re all ingredients that create this incredible experience. The view from Myung Chun’s GoPro camera as he drives a motorcycle near Bixby Bridge in Big Sur on May 30, 2026. Chun has been riding Highway 1 since 1990.
A curvy road is a biker’s delight. It challenges you to find the smoothest arc through the turn. The bike leaning pushes you down into your seat — positive G-force — with the same sensation as when an airplane banks. The right hand, left hand, right foot and left foot all do their respective jobs, and it makes for smooth and effortless riding.
It’s all very Zen. Most of the highway was fairly empty. It’s a long highway, so the cars were all spread out. The resorts and especially Bixby Bridge were pretty crowded.
There are lots of pedestrians to watch out for near these places. I was at the south end roadblock waiting for it to open. I met some people who were there for hours. There were about a dozen vehicles lined up waiting for the barricades to be removed.
At noon, the road opened up, people waved and drove down an empty highway. It was fun to see people excited about that. I would definitely recommend this trip. The road is still mostly empty, but there will be pockets of traffic.
And the popular spots will be probably be crowded, so be prepared for that. But the highway is open — so enjoy it now. People look at cars submerged in flood waters in the 2300 block of West Willow Street in Long Beach in February 2024. A very strong El Niño often means drenching storms, flooding and mudslides in Southern California, as seen in the destructive winters of 1982-83, 1997-98 and the soaking 2023-24 season.
LOS ANGELES, CALIF. - APR. 11, 2018. Artist David Hockney has an exhibition of newly painted portraits opening soon at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in Los Angeles.
The innovative and prolific British artist who arrived in Los Angeles in 1964, soon celebrating its sun-drenched life and landscapes in colorful, wildly popular paintings, Hockney immortalized the city’s sparkling swimming pools, palm trees and beautiful young men, then went on to experiment with intricate photo collages, portrait suites, painted and filmed images of Yorkshire landscapes, iPad drawings and more. What is it with Spielberg and space aliens?
We break down his career-long fixationAnd finally ... the photo of the day Julia Lee’s surprising DIY turf project in Cheviot Hills shows how embracing imperfection can be powerful.
“The garden is beautiful in the spring, and then it goes dormant in the summer,” she said. “It doesn’t have to look perfect. It’s a good life lesson. ”Hailey Branson-Potts is a state reporter who joined the Los Angeles Times in 2011.
She reports on a wide range of issues and people, with a special focus on rural communities. She grew up in the small town of Perry, Okla. , and graduated from the University of Oklahoma. Rebuilding L.A.
: How One Altadena Neighborhood Builds Back, Piece By Piece It turns out you can burn down a neighborhood and not destroy a community. We’ve seen evidence of this all across L.A. and so we will head back to one neighborhood that’s a good example of that bond: West Poppyfields Drive in Altadena. Today we discuss one of the pivotal events of the 1960s: the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy.
Though the gunman was caught at the scene, confessed at trial, and even bragged about the shooting, his motives have largely been forgotten. Modern LA earned its first smoggy nickname 450 years ago, as the “bay of smokes.
” At the La Brea tar pits, we take a short walk through a long history with curator Regan Dunn, who explains how and why the first Angelenos would have set fires that filled the broad bowl of LA and foretold the curse of smog.
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