There's not much to report on my time in Los Angeles. I arrived at the hotel about 5 hours before check in, so bought a ticket to a shuttle bus to Manhattan Beach + shopping, mainly as something to do to keep me in the sun so I wouldn't get jet lag (I'd heard that somewhere). I was tired, it being 1am according to my body clock, and me stupidly not really even attempting to sleep on the plane. But my aim was to stay awake 11 more hours, til about 6pm, which would bring my sleep pattern almost to normality (I didn't make it, I had a 2 hours nap at 1pm). Even without the jet lag factor, I had to kill time until check in, so yeh, I went shopping. I could have stopped
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