12th Arrived in downtown LA about 6pm after our last Greyound journey ever! Hell Yeah! Downtown is apparently dodge city and not too nice so jumped stright into a cab to Hollywood! Stayed at USA hostels which is all rules, rules, rules kinda felt like school. 13th Over slept, Phin (Chicago friend) had come to meet us, arranged to meet him after doing hollywood boulevard. On the way to meet Phin we bumped into Bret from Flight of the Conchords!! TOTES starstruc...

Arrived at 8ish am, got to the hostel which smelt strongly of wee and office wasn't open..We didn't want to stay here, so just checkin in for 1 night. went to public library to try and find another hostel on computors, sat next to a gentleman who also smelt bad.. grunting, and blatently watching some pretty graphic porn...awkward... booked a different hostel, better location. 8th - Checed in to union square backpackers hostel, down a dodge alley, wierd front des...