A spectacular Los Angeles Tour, Presidential Libraries & LA Museums

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May 13th 2017

Published: June 14th 2017

Many travelers around the world have Los Angeles on their short list of places to visit mainly due to the romance of the movies, endless sunny days and surfer dudes hitting the beaches. Los Angeles California is a small city of 4 million people, however the metro area is said to have more the 19 million inhabitants, which makes it the 2ndlargest U.S. city. A stream of entertainment must be availab... Read Full Entry

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Dave and Merry Jo Binkley

D MJ Binkley

Photographers, divers, writers, foodies, chefs and music enthusiasts. Travelers' Century Club Members: 12/2023. MJ 107 and Dave 104. We appreciate your feedback and if you like our stories we would appreciate it if you follow our blog. We live on North Hutchinson Island, Florida. If you are in Florida please send us a private message as we would love to meet you. Two retired nurses who are passionate about traveling the world. Our love of travel, meeting new people and experiencing new cultures will hopefully take us to wonderful plac... full info

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14th June 2017

michelleandkev
Michelle & Kevin Cavanagh

LA Museums
It is quite a few years since we explored some of what Downtown LA has to offer; indeed it was many years ago when we had children in tow!. However, I'm sorry to say that we didn't visit any of the fabulous museums you mentioned. Many thanks for pointing out some very good reasons why we'll just have to return!

14th June 2017

D MJ Binkley
Dave and Merry Jo Binkley

LA Musems
LA really does offer some nice museums. As you would imagine the Getty is amazing and the Presidential Libraries Museums well worth a visit but the smaller ones have plenty of interesting facts to offer.

14th June 2017

David and Janice
non-member comment

Museums!
Hi Guys, Good to know you're real people doing the things real people do- as well as being traveller supremos. We occasionally get to do a museum - some of our favourites are in Washington of course. We were in the 'Herring Museum' in Iceland this week! (Blog to come) Thank you for representing us at the Tara memorial. We travel and we blog for what we can leave behind for others to savour, now, and when we are gone. David

14th June 2017

D MJ Binkley
Dave and Merry Jo Binkley

Museums!
Real people doing real things.....yes. Museums have so much to offer...even the odd ones. It is a crash course in history and generally several perspectives. Thank you for commenting. Tara will be with all of us. I like the idea of leaving behind things for others to savour. Happy travels and eager to read your next blog.

14th June 2017

Sheila Ball
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Not a word about Disneyland
Great writing about some unusual things to see and do. You two always mine wherever life takes you.

14th June 2017

D MJ Binkley
Dave and Merry Jo Binkley

Not a word about Disneyland
You are right as this was a museum blog. Look back a couple of blogs and you'll see we wrote one about Disney. :)

14th June 2017

Kuan Yin
Karen Johnson

Jasmine Jia Tours
Thanks for telling me about Jasmine Jia's tours. I too am a big fan of the Harry Bosch books, and the tour you took sounds like it would be fun.

14th June 2017

D MJ Binkley
Dave and Merry Jo Binkley

Jasmine Jia Tours
You will not regret taking one of her tours. Tour guide extraordinaire. They are fantastic. Taking a Harry Bosch tour was fun and he goes all over the city so it was great fun.

14th June 2017

Silvernomads - Paul and Sheila
non-member comment

Museums
Enjoyed reading your blog about your trip to LA. I did not know about the U.S. Presidential museums and do hope you manage to get around them all.

14th June 2017

D MJ Binkley
Dave and Merry Jo Binkley

Musems
U.S. Presidential museums and libraries are very nice. You will want to add them to your list. Thanks for commenting.

14th June 2017

Grey haired nomads
David & Janice The grey-haired-nomads

Sayings!
You'll have been to Santa Fe and visited the Georgina O'Keeffe exhibition no doubt. Here's what she said: 'Where I live now and how I have lived is unimportant. It is what I have done with where I have been that should be of interest.' That too, was in Taras' bible.

14th June 2017

D MJ Binkley
Dave and Merry Jo Binkley

Sayings!
Yes Santa Fe is wonderful and Georgia O'Keeffe was wise beyond her years. And yes Tara understood that as well as anyone. Thanks for following and commenting.

16th June 2017

Crannster
Theresa and Dave

Morbid Fascination
I think most people have a deep-down morbid fascination of the taboo! The Death Museum does intrigue me. We can certainly understand more about human nature the more we delve into the weird things that our race has done. I like the comment about 'not wanting to sound like a guide book by the Chamber of Commerce.' Pretty funny. And what - no blues this time? Dave

16th June 2017

D MJ Binkley
Dave and Merry Jo Binkley

Morbid Fascination
Sadly, no blues this time. I have a fascination with serial killers so I found this museum a good one. The psyche of some of these people... yikes. MJ

21st June 2017

Ake Och Emma
Ake Dahllof and Emma Holmbro

In LA we went to La Brea Tar Pit
A place I enjoyed a lot in LA was La Brea Tar Pits. I would have enjoyed the Harry Bosch tour. I might take up on that. I would also like to see the water canals from Terminator 2. Some of the museums you saw I have to check out if I ever come to LA again. /Ake

21st June 2017

D MJ Binkley
Dave and Merry Jo Binkley

La Brea Tar Pits
We have the La Brea tar pits on our list for next weekend and the Griffith observatory. Hope you make it back to LA.

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