Location: Davenport, CA, USA

When I found this old bicycle discarded on the cliffs, I couldn’t help but wonder how it got there.  Did someone pedal this crude machine all the way up from Santa Cruz, some 12 miles distant, only to abandon it and leave it to battle the elements?  Perhaps.  Or maybe they just threw it out the back of their car during a road trip from who-knows-where.  Regardless it was there in my path, and more than willing to have its picture taken.  I turned it upside down, probably reminding it of happier days when it got its (now absent) chain greased, and made it smile for me one last time.