Blogs from Los Angeles, California, United States, North America - page 265

The Evening It was going to be a long night. We were returning home to Canberra from England on a Air NZ flight via LA and Auckland after being on the road for five weeks. Two legs were over nine hours, and they other two would add another five hours. Almost a complete day in the air! Our seats were quite close to the front of the aircraft, just forward of the door we boarded through, and several seats around us were unoccupied for the London to LA leg, so we were expecting a quiet time. It was not to be. At first we didn't notice the woman in the centre seats just in front of us. There was nothing obviously unusual about her, even when she was escorted back from the front cabin by ... read more

Gameday in Los Angeles. Game six of the final series LA Lakers - Philadelphia Sixers 2001. The setting is ideal for a good time. Warm and sunny, party on the rooftop in LA. Barbecue and beer. The excitement of the game does however not mount to any hights. The Sixers have nothing really to put up against the Lakers. Shaq, Kobe, and the others land the second consecutive NBA title in LA. The Spanish guy co-hosting the party shares my grudges against the Lakers. Right after the final bell rings he opens the window and screams in despair: "Philadelphia!". Despite the sometimes unprovoked, meaningless violence prevalent in the US, this can pass by unnoticed. Just out of curiosity, although I know the answer very well, I ask the dude from Madrid: "Would you do that in ... read more

Geo: 34.0533, -118.245Around about the turn of the century (2000) I travelled to the USA with my family. We visited Los Angeles, San Francisco, Yosemite, Grand Canyon, Las Vegas, among other places.... read more

We took Rachel to Disneyland and went shopping in Beverly Hills. I have photos of me standing next to Bruce Lee's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame outside Mhan's Chinese theatre.... read more

Or so we thought........ One of my co-workers was going to Hong Kong to visit family and invited me along. We left Las Vegas on America West flight 2043, a 737-300 bound for Los Angeles. I was in first class seat 1C for the hour long flight west. Once in LA, we went over to the Tom Bradley terminal for our flight to Tokyo. As airline employees, we fly stand-by and today was not our day. We tried the two Japan Airlines flights to Narita and they were both full. We went back to America West and took flight 2470, an Airbus 320, back to Las Vegas. Once again, we were given seats in first class and I was in seat 2F. In Las Vegas, we went to our homes and would meet the next morning ... read more