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Published: August 8th 2008
Gotta hand it to Greyhound, they are worth the money for pure entertainment value alone. The guy next to me appeared to be a 3 personality schizo.. and interestingly enough for a black dude 2 of them came across as white, made for some interesting conversations. Behind me was a actress called Yessi, who was very nice and who had lost her shirt in vegas at the tables.. unfortunately she had found another shirt before getting on the bus.. The bus took off across the desert and mountains for California and the main topic for most people on the bus was the story about some crazy on a GH bus the previous week who had decapitated the guy in the seat next to him and started to eat his flesh.. i neglected to point out that i was carrying a hunting knife and a hand axe at the point, well no need to worry people unduly hey.. After the driver getting lost in the burbs a few times and a queue on the freeway while firemen put out a burning greyhound bus we made to the LA greyhound station
the station at LA is again sited as far away from
anything or anywhere nice and at 7pm it was getting dark and i didn't fancy the long walk to the nearest underground station. SO its another taxi, with another driver that speaks no english. Hablos espanola? que?
The hostel was the weirdest so far on my travels, in the middle of korean district it doubled as a hostel, driver training facility, travel agents and clothes factory. A lot of the beds in the dorms turned out to be old massage tables, complete with the face holes, but sadly no little cute korean girls to massage away my woes...
The manager, Mr Xi was pretty interesting.. little skinny guy in a cute pinny who called me Mira Erriot. The food in this area was really really nice, but worryingly I didn't see any stray dogs or cats... still the kung po meat and rice was good. The communal kitchen was so dirty even the germs used anti bacterial cleaner before entering and in the old fridge i found a jar of peanut butter dating back to Ghengis Khan era. So it looked like i was eating out while i was here.
LA is BIG, sprawling mess of a
Mans Chinese Theatre
Blink and you'll miss itcity that frankly needs a nuclear bomb to improve it some. All the 'must sees' are a major letdown, especially Hollywood blvd. I walked past Mans Chinese Theatre without realising it...twice. Chinatown was chinaless and little tokyo was so little i never found it..Honey I shrunk the Japs. And Compton had a walmart ... how very Ghetto...
But Universal Studios was way cool man. And shelling out $130 for the VIP pass meant i got to jump to the front of every queue past 50 min+ queues of hawaian shirt wearing, sock and sandle sporting american tourists from boise Idaho.. It was great... even when the Mummy returns ride broke down leaving us stuck in the pitch dark for 30 mins.. the kid next to me wigging out and hyper ventilating kept the rest of us amused, tho suddenly screaming next to his head was a little cruel, but hey never said i was a nice guy al the time..
Two days was definatly enough for me and i headed off to San Pedro for some beach time. Auf Wiedersehn LA, I vill not be back......
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Chris Hodgson
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Twat in the hat? Can't say I've ever seen that Dr. Seuss book :o) Hope the sunburnt bits are getting better Chris