Blogs from Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States, North America - page 8

Well, it's just about three more weeks before I leave for Paris and I couldn't be more excited! This is my very first time to Europe and my first time traveling alone. I'll admit, I'm a little nervous about the return trip. In order to be at my cousin, Dan's, wedding I'm returning a day earlier than the rest of the group. This means that I will have to navigate through the airport in Paris by myself and then I will have a 3 hour layover in Heathrow (which is the airport in London). Thankfully, I should not have to switch terminals or deal with my luggage. Aside from that, it should be a really cool trip. These are the tours that we have planned through the school: A bus city tour of Paris An evening ... read more

30th May to 2nd June It doesn't quite have the same ring to it as 'Scream For Me Long Beach', the line made famous by Bruce Dickinson on Iron Maiden's 'Live After Death' album, recorded over four nights at of all places the Long Beach Arena back in 1985 but neither I nor the 16,000 other Maiden fans in Irvine's open air Wireless Ampitheater were complaining. It was almost twenty nine years to the day since I'd first seen them perform back in the Gallery Club in Birkenhead as a spotty sixteen year old and as I cruised south along the San Diego freeway the excitement and anticipation I felt more than equalled anything I could recall from all them years ago. I'd paid Vince, the local ticket agent who wears his white socks up to ... read more

Ok so i'm all onmy own now.I'm thinking to myself this isn't good. I'm constantly being told i can't manage on my own, are people right?. Well lets look at this claim. I managed to get to LA and i find the minibus i've prepaid for BUT i don't have the correct voucher GRRR... ok so i mucked up a lil there. Ok step 2 I get to the hostel and oh no i have no voucher AGAIN!. But i didn't panic I went to the interent found a printer and was sorted so i'm not doing to bad at this point. I'm living the same day TWICE i'm on my own but yeh i'm doing ok. Oh i'm tired... plus liverpool have lost not good! My phones gone dead NOOO!. The plan was to have ... read more

10th December 2007. Travel. The one word which spells the gateway to untold adventure, excitement and opportunity and yet which always fails wholeheartedly to get across the true horrors of it's main constituent ..... travelling. It was at precisely 1:35am that the monotonous and nauseating chimes of my alarm first plucked me and then shook me from the depths of a slumber that had lasted all of forty five minutes and just a fraction of a minute later before my slowly awakening senses succeeded in reminding me fully of the pitfalls of what lay ahead. Outside the bitter wind and rain lashed against the glazing producing in me an unquenchable desire to pull the quillt up to the bottom of my purring nostrils and return from whence I had just arrived but such was the schedule ... read more

We are leaving on March 1st for a quick trip to Southern California-Vancouver to LAX,-We arrive too late for transport to Santa Catalina so will stay on the Queen Mary on Sat nite , then helicopter over to Santa Catalina on Sunday morning (sounds decadent but there was a package special) We will stay on Santa Catalina Sunday night and then return to Long Beach late on Monday. Will fly home to SSI on Tuesday.This is the last flight of our Air Canada winter get away pass.Will provide more details later. Arrived back from LA sans luggage on the 4th- Catalina was fun. Everything is concentrated in Avalon -about 2000 people now (and 20,000 in summer) We hiked up to backcountry-quite a climb and did tourist stuff. No private cars on the Island-residents all drive golf ... read more