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

Tisdag kväll, den 4e juli. Fyrverkerierna smäller utanför fönstret, jag är precis hemkommen från en riktigt fin resa till LA. Det har onekligen varit helt packat på upplevelser. Jag tror jag låter bilderna berätta, så vi alla slipper spaltmeter med text. Jag känner mig väldigt nöjd. Min ambition var att få en känsla för hur LA är som stad, hur det är att leva där. Det tycker jag att jag har fått. Jag försöker sätta fingret på varför LA gjorde så stort intryck. Jag tror det är faktumet att det är en icke-stad, helt olik mot allt jag sett tidigare. I själva verket är det en hel värld. En varm, tryckande, trafiktät värld där det smutsiga, råa och brutala samsas med det rena, glamorösa och rika. Det kändes väldigt stort, ensamt och mäktigt. Även om jag ... read more

Hi blogger buddies! We thought we'd do a bit of a summary of the trip so far and let you know that more pictures have been added. We left the arctic temperatures of England early wednesday morning and about 12 hours later pulled up at our hostel in hollywood! ooh yeah! as you can tell from the pics the first 2 days were spent exploring the city, Sunset Bl, Hollywood walk of fame, all that jazz. second day climbed up some canyon park in the middle of the city, amazing views, rained a bit, won't talk about that! then on saturday headed down to venice beach for a change of scene! amazingly bizzarre people everywhere...a choice selection shown to you in the pics.We'd like to draw your attention particularly to the orange man who spends his ... read more

So here i'am, sat in a hostel right on Venice Beach. Finally the trip has began. The flight was murder, out of the five of us i was the one who got the seat 99z on my own and ended up starring at the wing of the plane for 11 hours which was pretty nasty. But we finally landed, got a shuttle bus to our hostel right on the beach and settled in our 6 person dorm. The rooms are quite nice or better than expected. We have met quite a few people out here, including the 6th dorm member mark a.k.a knashers. We've been hanging around with different groups of people. On the first night me, Brad and Dan went to the hostel bar and had a few beers with the other guests, they are ... read more

Woke up at 4:15 AM and then... Well we drove all day and night to L.A. (didn't leave my house until about 6:00AM) and it was pretty intense, because of all the partying and stuff to take care of last week we all realized a few hours into the drive that we were extremely behind in our sleep. I took the first shift, drove to Mt. St. Helen's exit in southern Washington, and then Jord took over and drove to Eugene Oregon. We bought Ryan a new digital camera, which worked out great since in retrospect there is no tax in Oregon. Ry drove from there to the Cali border where we almost ran out of gas, thankfully some tiny gas station in an unknown town saved our ass. I took over the drive from there ... read more

OK, hi to all of you's who made it to my first weblog!! i hope i do this properly and it dont end up looking like crap, So i started off from Auckland on june 7th 2005, heading for LAX where (i was asked for money almost as soon as i got off the plane) and had an 8 hour stop over and enough time to get out of the airport and and explore a lil bit. I decided to take a taxi to Venice beach seeing as it was sunny as and not a cloud in the sky. I walked the venice beach boardwalk and ran into some crazy ass dude who i had to put up with telling me that "this is where i live!!, on the street player!!!" whilst he sipped his forty ... read more