After another few hectic days, we desperately needed a sleep-in. It turns out that LA had a large storm move through, so it had rained most of the night and was still raining all morning. So it was a good morning to take it easy. Once the rain eased late morning, we headed down to Santa Monica. We checked out the huge pier (the official end of Route 66), before walking along the beach toward Venice Beach. We encountered some weird and wacky stuff along this walk - the only shops open were tattoo parlours and pipe shops (not your musical [View Full Entry]

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Hello Everyone! This is our first official travel blog entry! Alicia and I are heading out on our 5 month adventure in exactly 9 days and couldn't be more excited! We hope that this site will make it easy for all of our friends and family to stay in connected with us and get an in-depth good look at what we've been experiencing. Also, we plan on collecting ridiculous amounts of photos and footage which we will upload here as much as we can..... The Basics: On November 3rd we are flying out of LAX at 11:30pm. After 18 hours in [View Full Entry]

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After 5 weeks of packing in so many activities and adventures i decided it was time to finally relax California style. I stopped in Santa Barbara which is a small city right on the coast about 2 hours north of Los Angeles. This was an absolutely awesome place, and to set the typical Californian scene, as i walked to my hostel from the greyhound the air was rye with the oh so sweet smell of marijuana. Santa Barbara is a college town but with a very classy feel. Everything is located along one main high street with a open shopping centre [View Full Entry]

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Well im here...9 months of saving...thousands of dollars spent and finally i am sitting on the beach right next to Santa Monica Pier...pretty sick i must say. So it was an early start on Saturday morning. Up at 7, at the airport by 9. The goodbye wasnt to bad...i have seen alot worse and as azz predicted; even though they say you should be through the doors 2 hours before just incase there is a line, of course there was NO ONE and so i got through border control in all of about 40 seconds. Oh well. Flight wasnt bad. I [View Full Entry]

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2 weeks! It's been 2 weeks since I left to come to California. Ok, so it is more like a week and a half, but in this time I have realized that I didn't mention, on this TRAVEL blog, that I would taking a trip. Now I am here, relocated for an extended stay in California. Come to think of it, maybe I did mention that I would be comming here, but I pay so little attention to what I write that I am either declaring it for the first time or the 3rd. I left on a Wednesday morning, an [View Full Entry]

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Los Angeles - unsere erste Station Dank der Zeitumstellung haben wir zwar einen halben Tag gewonnen, den wir allerdings am Immigrationschalter und in der Schlange bei der Mietwagenfirma verbummeln. Trotzdem schaffen wir es aber zum Dinner nach Santa Monica wo uns Gudrun und Billy schon mit riesigen Crab-Legs erwarten und vollstopfen :) Am naechsten Tag sind wir morgens frueh um 7 am Strand, ausser joggern ist hier sonst noch keiner und der riesige Strand ist wunderschoen!! Nach dem Fruehstueck machen wir uns auf ins Museum ( ja richtig ins Museum) fuer das uns Gudrun schon Karten besorgt hat [View Full Entry]

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So let's see if all we ever saw about Santa Monica, Beverly Hills, Melrose, Hollywood and Downtown LA is true ..... well you know ... it's right here where you become aware how well TV can blow everything out of proportion .... LOL .... it's all a big spoof!! Especially the walk of fame ... let me tell you the streets in Cape Verde are cleaner and there are far less homeless on the street ... oh and take care not to be ran over by those sport addicts, be that on a bike or on foot ... [View Full Entry]

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Hollywood and Santa Monica 28°c Up and at ‘em nice and early again this morning! Trying to maximise every single hour of the day to get the most out of our time. After sending a couple of emails back home this morning, I ventured out down to meet the girls around 8:30am, where we went and did the hand and footprints over at the Chinese Theatre before too many other tourists people arrived. However even at that time it was busy, but we managed to get some really great shots of the prints and us each putting our hands in them. [View Full Entry]

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Vanochtend hebben we eerst echt Amerikaans ontbeten met pancakes, egg en bacon bij Mels Drive-in. Na het ontbijt hebben we een route gereden langs verschillende huizen van beroemdheden, deze route ging via Bell Air naar uiteindelijk Mullholland drive. Aan Mullholland drive wonen veel beroemdheden, zoals Britney Spears en Jennifer Lopez. Niet dat er een beroemdheid te zien was...., maar toch leuk om te zien. Toen zijn we doorgereden naar Beverly Hills, soort PC Hoofdstraat van Los Angeles. Veel dure winkels om te kijken, maar niet om iets te kopen. We hadden het hier al snel bekeken en zijn [View Full Entry]

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Hello all friends and family, I left Mendocino yesterday and am now in Santa Monica. (Drove down with the padres... that was somewhat of an epic adventure in itself.) It was so hard to leave; I wanted more time with my friends and Penny also, since she's working in Mendo for the summer. Tomorrow I have orientation at UCLA, and I leave for London on Thursday. Monica [View Full Entry]

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