Blogs from Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States, North America - page 10

Ok. So its 2:30 in the morning and my brother is driving me to the airport at 6:30 am. Are we working to finish what we need to do? No, we are setting up this cool blog so folks can follow my trip with Sarah to Japan and China. Amazing the new ways I come up with to procrastinate. As a preview here is a quick itinerary of the weeks ahead. Mon. July 24 - Depart LAX for San Francisco then on to Osaka, Japan (12 hour flight). Tues. July 25 - Arrive at 4pm in Osaka, Japan Wed., July 26 - Travel to Kyoto (old Japanese capital) Thurs., July 27 - Kyoto Fri., July 28 - Train to Fukuoka, Japan (3-4 hours from Kyoto) Sat., July 29 - Fly to Beijing (capital of China located ... read more

Driving the Pacific Coast Highway 7-8/11/05 We drove to Monterey and spent the afternoon prodding fishes at the aquarium. They had a decorator crab which was decorated with Hallowe'en coloured wool (orange and black, supplied by the aquarium staff). In a couple of weeks, they said they were going to change the wool to red and green for Christmas. Penguins! Sea Otters! The aquarium had them all, some on an exchange visit from New Orleans while their home is being rebuilt. There was also a deep sea display with enormous Tuna and Sunfish (which look plain weird, they seem to only have a front half). We tried to get a sandwich at a cafe, but the very aged dahhhling who served us had no veggie sandwiches, so I had a bottle of OJ and Vernon's crisps. ... read more

Between the sales rep and I, we purchased twelve (12) tickets to the LB Gran Prix to entertain customers. Our seats were in the Grand Stand area, right by the finish line. This was my first time to a Gran Prix race. I brought my digital video camera, my digital camera, binoculars, sun block, but I forgot to take some darn ear plugs! Once the race started, the roar of the cars was unbearably high....... read more

How do you prepare for a 94 day cruise? Summer in the South Pacific & winter in Asia, luckily for us, the ship has no limitations on luggage. We leave from Los Angeles and return to Los Angeles, so no flights to hassle with. Three months of advance bill paying and prescriptions. Say, did we turn off the water in the desert? Oh my goodness! We kick off our adventure January 9th with a Bon Voyage party and an overnight stay at the St. Regis in Century City. (Right next door to my old office building…small world…I’ll be thinking of you…nah!) Then on Saturday we embark to get a look at our new home until April 13th, the Radisson Seven Seas Voyager, which we get to show to Linda’s sister and brother-in-law. After a small visit, ... read more