
Walking the Line
Discoveries Along the Los Angeles City Limits
Roy A. Meals(Author)
Boundary Line Books (Publisher)
Published on 30. September 2025
Book
Paperback/Softback
248 pages
979-8-9995777-0-2 (ISBN)
Description
A 342-Mile Exploration of America's Second Largest City
Walking the Line is an inspirational urban walking adventure that explores Los Angeles, away from the glamor and fame of its well-known centrally located attractions.
Longtime LA resident Roy Meals describes numerous little-known points of interest he discovered while tracing the 342-mile perimeter of America's second-largest city. In ten-mile twice-weekly segments, he follows LA's city limits beginning atop a 5,000-foot mountain, proceeding along sea-level beaches, and continuing through residential, commercial, and industrial areas.
He samples ethnic delicacies, races go-karts, pets a giraffe, suffers landfill ejection, paints graffiti, and takes hang gliding and fencing lessons. For LA residents and visitors, this is a unique guide to under-appreciated and fascinating local attractions.
Highlights include:
Full chapters on attraction-dense areas: Venice, Griffith Park, San Pedro and Wilmington
7 wilderness hikes in the San Gabriel and Santa Monica Mountains
27 urban segments, including Sylmar, Brentwood, South LA, Boyle Heights, North Hollywood, and Eagle Rock
107 color photographs
Regardless of readers' home turf, Walking the Line encourages everyone to escape their own neighborhoods, venture forth on foot, and make interesting, life-enriching discoveries.
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Language
English
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
Thickness: 14 mm
Weight
365 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-9995777-0-2 (9798999577702)
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Roy Meals is an orthopedic surgeon and an avid outdoor enthusiast. He grew up in suburban Kansas City, attended Rice University (BA). and Vanderbilt University (MD). He performed his orthopedic surgery residency at Johns Hopkins Hospital and hand surgery fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital. Along the way, he served as a general medical officer (Major) in the USAF before joining the faculty at UCLA, where he continues to practice, teach, investigate, and write about the musculoskeletal system. He has served as editor in chief for the Journal of Hand Surgery and as President of the American Society for Surgery of the Hand. Away from work, he has hiked, walked, and/or bicycled on all seven continents and ardently gardens at home in Los Angeles.