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North America » United States » California » Los Angeles » Downtown October 13th 2022

For those of you counting, the city of Los Angeles covers 503 square miles and Los Angeles County is 4,752 square miles big. See? HUGE. It’s the second most populous city in the US – a little less than half that of New York City. The map just totally blows me away! In addition, LA has 75 miles of coastline. Almost 4 million people. About 36% of residents were born outside of our country. When I was working, Los Angeles was a nightmare. I even shared an apartment and a car lease with the President of the company, because one of us was in LA so often. And it seems like, no matter where you are, everything is an hour away!! So, you New Yorkers complain about having to go from Central Park West to Chelsea?? ... read more
What a mess!

North America » United States » California » Los Angeles September 18th 2022

Day 1 of our next adventure to the USA. This trip was planned in 2020 but was delayed a little for some reason ! Kerry & I will be away for 7 weeks this time with the primary goal ticking off the final 6 states so we can achieve the target of visiting all 50 states in the USA. Well we picked up the Kia Stonic (small SUV) rental car from Hertz and left home @ 5.20pm for the drive to Brisbane Airport and topped up with $10- gas (might as well start using the yankee language now I guess) and experienced the stupid parking entry at the Shell Petrol Station near the airport again ! The Stonic is a bit gutless to drive but did the job for 1.5 hour journey from home. Easy drop ... read more
Seats 45J and 45K
Tough water restrictions in LAX area !
Dinner at the Holiday Inn Express

North America » United States » California » Los Angeles September 4th 2022

2nd September, 2022 We both spoke to family before finally getting to sleep about 3am which was 5am New York time which is what our bodies were still on. I don’t think either of us slept very well. At least we could have a leisurely shower. Walked down to the servo to get some smokes for Sandra and then to Denny’s for breakfast. I know Sandra is not going to miss the USA coffee. Back at the hotel, we sat out by the pool doing not a lot. We had a late checkout of 3pm but with the time difference to Australia, we couldn’t go to the airport till we had heard from Courtney about the new flight. We hung around in the lobby of the hotel, making sure our devices stayed fully charged and dozing. ... read more

North America » United States » California » Los Angeles » Hollywood August 10th 2022

C’est parti pour la découverte de Los Angeles et bien sur, le lieu le plus emblématique: Hollywood. On part de notre cottage vers dix heures. La circulation est correct en ce milieu de matinée et après vingt minutes de route, on arrive sur le boulevard et on va se garer au parking du centre commercial Highland, juste à côté du Chinese Theatre, et du Dolby Theatre, qui chaque année voit se dérouler la cérémonie des oscars. Hollywood boulevard n’est pas encore très animé à cette heure. Les boutiques de souvenirs ouvrent à peine. On commence à jouer à chercher les étoiles et à prendre en photo celle des célébrités qui nous tiennent à cœur. On file complètement à l’Ouest du "Walk of Fame". Le début est indiqué par les « Four Ladies of Hollywood », quatre ... read more
Hollywood Sign
Rodeo Drive
Griffith Observatory

North America » United States » California » Los Angeles August 9th 2022

On repart de bonne heure de notre hôtel à San Luis Obispo pour continuer notre route vers Los Angeles. Comme il n’y avait pas de petit déjeuner, on a décidé d’aller le prendre à Solvang, un petit village à quatre-vingt-dix kilomètres, qui a tout l’apparence d’un village danois. Solvang a, en effet, été fondée par des danois au début du vingtième siècle. Les maisons sont d’inspiration danoise, avec des colombages et très colorées. On trouve aussi plusieurs moulins, et les noms sur les magasins ne trompent guère sur l’origine et sonnent vraiment danois. La ville exploite au maximum cet héritage. On trouve plusieurs boulangerie danoises, des restaurants, et bien sur, dans une ville danoise au Etats-Unis, un magasin de décoration de Noël ! On s’achète trois pâtisseries danoises, plutôt moyennes. Un petit tour d’une heure et ... read more
Pier de Santa Barbara
Zuma Beach - Malibu
Solvang


So what a great start to our adventure! I broke my glasses last night. Shit! When I was going to bed the buggas flew out of my hands and when I caught them they broke. Now I gotta find an optometrist to fix them. Not easy to do in a tourist town. Neither of us slept very well as we are still on Melbourne time so we were up early and out walking to find an optometrist. Couldn’t find one so we got the hop on hop off bus to Beverly Hills. The bus dropped us about a 10 min walk from Rodeo Drive, just near the Police Headquarters. The walk to Rodeo Drive was so funny. Because of where we got dropped off, we were chatting about the movie, Beverly Hills Cop. As we were ... read more
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Apologies to all that got a drunk call last night ?‍♀️ ?? Last night turned into a party. Some of the guests staying here heard us all talking and came out and asked to join us and there ended up being about 10 people all drinking and swapping facebook details. We had a great time making new friends from all round the world. Of course, we said that if they ever come to Melbourne, we would show them around. The staff from the hostel came out and asked us to move from the backyard at 10pm and we went to the front yard and took over. We made a lot of noise and had lots of fun and of course plenty to drink. We woke up a little seedy and walked to an optometrist we had ... read more
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Thanks to Sandra’s next door neighbour, Jodie, we got to the airport in plenty of time. Our plane took off 15 mins late. We had plenty to eat and drink on the plane and the staff were lovely. Photos to come when I can work out what the hell I am doing wrong coz I can’t post any at the moment. We both dozed on and off and were glad to get off when we landed on time. We got through customs in record time, even though Sandra couldn’t get her finger prints done properly coz she couldn’t bend her wrist the way the lady wanted. We all ended up laughing and the customs lady wished us a happy vacation and sent us on our way. We were in the taxi within 30 mins of landing. ... read more
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Voila, nous sommes enfin arrivés à Los Angeles, après une journée compliquée à courir. Cela a commencé a Roissy, pour trouver les comptoirs d’enregistrement de British Airways. En fait, ils sont « au sous-sol », et pas clairement bien indiqués. Heureusement, nous avions de la marge, mais c'était le premier stress de cette journée. L’escale d’Heathrow c’est faite sans encombre, mais nous avons découvert que nous n’étions pas ensemble sur le vol pour Los Angeles. Mais après avoir embarqué, ma voisine de siège à bien voulu faire l'échange avec Sabi. Clément, lui, a fait le voyage seul. Presque douze heures de vol, c’est vraiment long. Arrivés aux contrôles, on s’est retrouvé dans une interminable file d’attente où l’on a perdu presque deux heures pour juste une petite photo et un contrôle du passeport. Du coup, les ... read more


Considering how poorly Asian men are portrayed in Hollywood, I was genuinely surprised to learn about Sessue Hayakawa, a Japanese actor who became one of the biggest stars during the American silent era of the 1910s.He became one of Hollywood’s first sex symbols after starring in the film, The Cheat (1915) in which he plays a cruel villain (there’s a scene in which he literally brands a woman). Despite his portrayal, Hayakawa became extremely popular with American women for his “broodingly handsome” good looks. At one point, he was the highest paid actor in Hollywood (making over $3,500 a week), and his fame was on par with that of Charlie Chaplin.Although, Hayakawa was highly sought after during the 1910s and early 1920s, he became disillusioned by constantly being typecast for the same roles. He decided to ... read more




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