LA: City of Automobiles
Mike: 2 tacos for 99cents!!
Zan: Filet-o-fish for 99cents
Mike: 6 sodas for 99cents
Zan: 99 cents store.
Mike: Does that mean we get the whole store for 99 cents?
Mike and Zan: We just spent 3 nights in Los Angeles and we think we can safely say that they are the last three nights we will ever spend there. Our hostel was conveniently located up the road from the beach, down the road from the shopping mall and right opposite the road from the cop shop. On a positive note if you can survive the freezing cold wait for the Metro ($3 for an entire day) the local bus system will take you anywhere you desire to go. Unfortunately there aren't many desirable places to visit.
We decided to embrace the culture that is LA by visiting Hollywood Boulevard. Well what can we say... the local pickpockets were out in force that day. We saw them with three wallets right before they began following us down the street. We did manage to see the GIANT Hollywood sign and snap a few pictures and follow the walk of fame but were unable to find Mann's Chinese theatre or Whoopies hair :-(
With the next day came rain and even colder weather. We hopped on a bus to Downtown LA. We saw city hall - the building used as the daily planet HQ in Superman (which was subsequently destroyed in war of the worlds), Disney hall, had lunch in the Latin quarter (even the signs to the toilet were in Spanish) before getting on another bus to Venice beach. It was dark when we got there, and although nothing was open, we managed to find a Starbucks for a warm drink.
Lesson #2 - Walking around LA we discovered 2 things: You need to look LEFT then RIGHT before crossing a road and pedestrians are not welcome. While following what we thought was the sidewalk to the Museum of Contempory Art we ended up wandering onto a six lane freeway. I think the following photo pretty well sums up LA.
Our favorite place in LA was the Santa Monica Pier. It is the home of Bubba Gump Shrimping Co., a pub that plays the Cat Empire, the Gregory Colbert nomadic museum (we highly recommend you look this up - www.ashesandsnow.com) and many lifeguard towers.
posted by Mike & Zan :-) | 12:13 pm
4 Comments:
Gday guys, glad u mate it to the US safely (sorry im a bit slow to post), it sounds like u guys are having fun, shame about whoopi's hair and Manns Chinese Theatre though
Gday Kids,
well, im glad to see whilst im here already freaking out about my piles of uni work that your having (what seems to be) a blast!!! im jealous?!? who would think they would play cat empire in the states?!?
look forward to the next installment from you guys soon!!!
Love me xo
ps. its funny to see a (previously owned)piece of (my) clothing is now more of a seasoned traveller than i am :)
Sorry to hear about the cold and rain in california. Hope San Fran is much nicer to you guys... im sure it will be :D
Im really just posting for that postcard :P
Wow!! Sounds like you guys really are living the high life over there in the States!! It's good to hear the brutal truth about LA...but i really am disappointed bout the disappearance of the famous Mann's Chinese Theatre! Where did it go?
Hope you guys are ok over there and not freezing too badly - wait till you hit the mountainy things you're going to be hiking for six months...you might find them just a tad colder ;)
We're all jealous of your escapade over the States here at work, but please keep up updated, it lets our day go much faster!!!
Love the Vodafone crew x
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