We arrived in LA at our hostel in Hollywood to find more Aussies there than exist in the whole of the Perth metro area and being the international men of mystery that we are, we found 4 other guys from Perth to drink with. LA hostel takes the cake for Aussies per capita, make that gross amount of Aussies, out of any hostel we have stayed at so far. The hostel organised a walking tour today of the Beverly Hills and Bel Aire areas of LA so that insignificant people like us could gaze in amazement at the huge houses and frivolous security systems of the rich and famous. We walked past houses occupied by Jerry Lee Lewis (before he died), Freddie Mercury (before he died), Marilyn Monroe (before she died in the house), Frank Sinatra
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