I always travel with my bike and it has become a little more difficult to do it nowadays but I stick it in 3 5 by 6-foot case and wheel that thing in.
There's no need to travel further. The Los Angeles area is big enough for us.
What we have found in this country and maybe we're more aware of it now is one problem that we've had even in the best of times and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates the homeless you might say by choice.