Launched September 30, 2025, WTL is an Amazon #1 Best Seller in these categories: California Travel Guides, Pacific US Regional Travel, Walking, New Releases in Travel Writing, and Los Angeles Travel.
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Walking the Line is an inspirational, 342-mile, 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 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, descending to 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 underappreciated and fascinating local attractions. 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. Wherever you live, be neighborly, curious, fit, and engaged!
YOU WILL BE ABLE TO
- read full chapters on the most attraction-dense areas: Venice, Griffith Park, San Pedro, and Wilmington
- follow 7 wilderness hikes through the San Gabriel and Santa Monica Mountains
- meander through 27 neighborhoods, including Sylmar, Brentwood, South LA, Boyle Heights, North Hollywood, and Eagle Rock
- enjoy 107 color photographs
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Atop Mt. Lukens with LA in background, 342 miles to go.