http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/Santa-Monica/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from North America , United States , California , Los Angeles , Santa Monica en-us Sat, 02 Jan 2010 07:13:58 +0000 Sat, 02 Jan 2010 07:13:58 +0000 After another few hectic days we desperately needed a sleepin. 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 Venic http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/Santa-Monica/blog-461034.html Hello EveryoneThis 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 indepth good look at what we've been experiencing. Also we plan on collecting ridiculous amounts of photos and footage http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/Santa-Monica/blog-448420.html Photos from my trip last year. Enjoy http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/Santa-Monica/blog-445940.html 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 marij http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/Santa-Monica/blog-441367.html 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 l http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/Santa-Monica/blog-439997.html 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 a http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/Santa-Monica/blog-436380.html Los Angeles unsere erste StationDank 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 CrabLegs erwarten und vollstopfen Am naechsten Tag sind wir morgens frueh um 7 am Strand ausser j http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/Santa-Monica/blog-433011.html 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 a http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/Santa-Monica/blog-428495.html Santa Monica Pier and beach... Venice beach... Great times hanging out with friends in L.A. http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/Santa-Monica/blog-426650.html Everybody goes to.. HollywoodAfter an overnight bus journey that took about 2 hours less than scheduled we arrived in downtown LA at the greyhound station. we think the driver put his foot down anticipating a lot of traffic from the MJ memorial serviceyes we were in LA for that monumental dayWe hopped on a couple of buses which was relativly straight forward and arrived in Santa Monica abo http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/Santa-Monica/blog-421189.html Hollywood and Santa Monica 28cUp and at lsquoem 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 830am where we went and did the hand and footprints over at the Chinese Theatre before too many other tourists people arrived. Ho http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/Santa-Monica/blog-420353.html Vanochtend hebben we eerst echt Amerikaans ontbeten met pancakes egg en bacon bij Mels Drivein.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 http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/Santa-Monica/blog-418713.html Hello all friends and familyI 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 http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/Santa-Monica/blog-417859.html Wa mor bis ez gmacht hend...Am mntig morge hmer en schwr abschied ka vo sere gastfamily... es isch soooo trurig gsi.. mini gastmam und i hnd wrkli mse brele... d chind hnd noch dem das mir gange sind zwei tag immer wiederbrelet... also wrkli en schwere abschied gsi....am mntig simmer dn richtig huntington beach gfahre... unterwgs hemor den aber no bim laguna beach und newport beach http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/Santa-Monica/blog-412072.html June 22nd 2009From across the pondHello it's Jenny's friend Alex. I have arrived and have taken over. As I type at 6.30am gotta love jet lag Jenny is stretching for our morning run down Santa Monica beach. It is absolutely stunning here. Gorgeous district suburb of LA with little boutique shops and better on street busking than either of us have heard from most of the recording artists i http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/Santa-Monica/blog-411123.html After a week of relaxation and calm in Fiji a week in LA totally shook up the senses. This was a place I'd been to before but I was 11 and all I really remember of it is Disneyland and Universal Studios. So I was looking forward to getting to know the place.Which is really not very easy to do especially in a week. I hadn't quite registered the vastness of the place until I started trying to get http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/Santa-Monica/blog-400649.html After breakfast the plan was to book the car hire so we could pick it up tomorrow. After a quick internet search we thought we'd found a decent deal so we booked it online. Then the drama started.After entering our credit card details attempting to complete the transaction resulted in nothing happening. So we rung the local number on the site not connected. Alarm bells Goolging for the site n http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/Santa-Monica/blog-396098.html We arrived in Los Angeles at around 330pm picked up our sky blue PT Cruiser from car rental and headed for Santa Monica Pier. We took a walk around Santa Monica and then a stroll on the pier including a ride on the ferris wheel.after that we headed for the hotel the Good NIte Inn near Burbank and will be here two nights as a base to go to Santa Barbara and Magic Mountain. The weather is fan http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/Santa-Monica/blog-386504.html Am 23.3. bin ich nach circa 33 Srunden unterwegs sein in LA angekommen war aber noch recht fit. Mein Hostel war in Santa Monica quasi ein Vorort von LA der aber direkt an LA grenzt am Strand. Santa Monica ist ganz schn es gibt einen Pier mit einem Vergngungspark drauf der Strand ist unglaublich breit und es gibt eine ewig lange Promenade wo es von Skatern und Radfahrern nur so wimmelt http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/Santa-Monica/blog-386341.html Hi AllMany thanks for your great emails and comments on the NZ blog....the cheque from the NZ tourism department is due soonWe had a great flight from Auckland the very strange thing is arriving on the morning of the evening you took off after 11 hours of flying therefore gaining a whole day....we had lunch in Auckland before we left on the 10th and then lunch in LA again on the 10th....Fan http://www.travelblog.org/North-America/United-States/California/Los-Angeles/Santa-Monica/blog-382027.html