Blogs from Los Angeles, California, United States, North America

Miasto Aniołów każdy zna z amerykańskich filmów i seriali. Niesamowite było zobaczyć to miejsce na własne oczy. Zwiedzanie metropolii rozpoczęliśmy od zachodu słońca na plaży w Santa Monica i słynnym molo. Nie omieszkaliśmy też przejechać przez dzielnicę Beverly Hills podziwiając wille i drogie auta mieszkańców. Cytując Sebę ‘tu jest chyba największe zagęszczenie porsche na metr kwadratowy’. Słynny Bulwar Hollywood to ponad 2,000 gwiazd z nazwiskami ludzi filmu, długi spacer nie pozwolił nam zobaczyć pewnie nawet połowy… ;) Sama ulica wydaje się być stworzoną dla turystów i miejscowych luzaków przesiadujących w pubach i barach z marihuaną. Wieczorem wybraliśmy się do Parku Griffitha zobaczyć nocną panoramę miasta i to był zdecydowanie najlepszy punkt tego etapu naszej wyprawy! Na plażowanie wybraliśmy miejscowość Laguna sł... read more

So today we visited Hollywood, Beverley Hills, Santa Monica plus other areas. We took a hop-on and hop-off sight-seeing bus which was great. Hollywood is a bit of a tip, especially compared with with Beverley Hills and Santa Monica. We wandered up and down the Hollywood walk of fame looking at the stars set into the pavement (sidewalk) - there is a photo of the Jimi Hendrix star associated with this blog entry. There is also a photo of Arnold Schwarzenegger's hand and foot prints that are set into the concrete outside of the famous Chinese Theatre. Yesterday when I posted the blog entry I forgot to include a photo of me with our yellow and black hire car. It certainly has a bit of poke about it, although I think I prefer our Nissan Qashqai. ... read more

After getting to sleep on Sunday night at 2am, we were awake again at 4am to leave for Heathrow. Although it was expected to be an 11 hour flight, we arrived in LA 30 minutes ahead of schedule. Those 30 minutes were soon swallowed up by the US immigration queues and the hertz car hire. It took 2 hours for hertz to find us a car, although by the number of unhappy people in their LA office, I will say we got away quite well. The hotel is very nice and is located in the downtown district of LA. On arrival we did some exploring and grabbed a bite to eat in an outdoor restaurant (the weather is lovely). We will be taking a hop on and hop off bus tour around the famous Hollywood areas ... read more

DAMN! Those girls look deah-d. We had a rough sleep. Got woken up at 4am from a fire alarm, but it seemed we were the only ones concerned. No fire though. Room service woke us up at 11, starting to feel the jet lag at this point. We stopped off at our favorite (cos thats how americas spell it) cafe LA for an awesome breakfast. We felt like egg. After both agreeing to go to Hollywood, we set off without a clue how to get there. We walked to the metro station and took the Red line to Hollywood. It was pretty straight forward actually. We got off and walked down Hlywd Blvd a fair bit, by passing the hollywood sign which was cool. Along the way we got asked about 28 times if we wanted ... read more

May 16, 2013 (Los Angeles) All team members scheduled to be on this leg of the trip made it to the flight with plenty of time to spend. We took the American Airlines regional jet flight directly from OKC to LAX. The Oklahoma team had a smooth timely flight to Los Angeles where we are scheduled to have a 4 hour layover. I’ll briefly introduce you to the current group, and will give you more detail on each team member later on. Dr. Brad Farris is an ophthalmologist at DMEI specializing in neuro-ophthalmology. He’s been the veteran initiator of the international programs at DMEI and this will be his 13th trip to Chengdu through this program. His primary area of interest has been to help foster the academic exchange with the Chinese to develop better trained ... read more