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Los Angeles round up.
Upon finally arriving in LA at Orbit Hostel, not a lot happened, I went and had a few beers at their co-owned hostel around the corner and then crashed. The next morning involved I joined an Aussie and made the mission to Venice beach area. After getting a bus driver who was en route to having a very bad day at the office, we made it there a couple hours later. I knew it was reasonably far away from the hostel, but two hours to travel 10 miles was a bit silly.
Once there, it was a cool area, with lots of things happening and people everywhere. Jumped on a bike and cycled up and down for a few hours on the path that goes for 21 miles right up through Santa Monica and beyond. Heaps of people riding and roller-blading etc. easy ride to which was handy. After returning, went for a walk to the Farmers Market and The Grove, once a again a bustling little area, heaps of people. Had some dinner there, was possibly one of the nastiest burgers I have ever had, it was a BLT burger from one of the kiosks. The lettuce was all slimy, tomatoes yucky and so on. Definitely pig food.
The next day I ran into one of the people I met in SD, he had hired a car. So we plugged in addresses of houses such as Elvis Presleys former house, the Playboy Mansion, Jackie Chan and couple others I cannot remember into the GPS an off we went. The booklet said to lookout for famous stars walking round their property, or the surrounding streets. What a crock of s***, there is no footpaths in the residential area of Bel Air, so you wouldn't see any of the 'famous' anyway and you only see the gates of their property, maybe the odd roof top. We had a good laugh passing the tour guide buses that were packed. The owners of the buses must laugh at being able to charge people way too much to look at gates.....
We then went to Hollywood Boulevard to look at the stars and stuff. There was a fountain structure of the ground that the kids would have a ball in, running through playing tag etc. This big unit who would safely be over 100kg, then went for a sprint through.......a young girl, 7 years old max also decided to....at the same time. From a 90 degree angle they collided, s*** it was nasty, but a big commotion occurred as the older guy wouldn't apologise and they made quite the scene. Was not a good thing to see, the girl would have been sore for days, at least the guy limped off eventually.
Next minute, I was feeling dizzy and queasy. That followed a wee yak in the bin, managed to keep it low key. I hadn't been feeling great most of the morning, pretty sure it was the water I got from the vending machine at the Hostel, and the bottle looked like it had been there for some time. I felt a bit better so continued on, but there was not a lot to see so I went back to the Hostel and slept for the most of the next 20 hours or so.
The final day, I wasn't 100%, but I went for a walk all around Downtown LA and Sunset Blvd. Picked up a couple things for Costa Rica. Managed to down some food so all was well again, but took it easy for the day overall. Went to the comedy show the hostel puts on weekly which was fairly average. Overall, unless you have a car, LA is too big to do a lot in a few days; I would not want to spend to long here though either I think.
I am now in Miami airport, 8 hours till I board to Costa Rica. It is 12:30am, no one is in the terminal but me from what I can see which is weird. I won't leave the hostel though as obviously nothing will be open. Will get to see the oil spill in the Gulf en route to CR I believe which will be interesting I guess, ensured I got a window seat for that.
Between now and the flight I guess I will finish my book, and then try and figure some basic Spanish out so I can at least get to the Hotel we are suppose to meet at, although I have no idea when we are suppose to be meeting or nothing. Hopefully I run into people who speak English to a reasonable level. Oh s***, got a thing to do for the distance course paper as well that's due, another thing I will do.
Observations:
-LA is huge, it's was 10 miles to Venice beach, I was thinking Disney Land at one stage, but that was 50 miles away, that was too much effort
-Yay people are around temporarily, a flight just came in
-LA has some weird people, was talking to a couple girls at the hostel, they went Downtown at dusk and they came back rather shaken up, as soon as they got on the bus and people herd their Pommy accent, creepy people kept talking to them asking if they want to be walked anywhere and stuff. I seen some very strange people also.
-There is still a lot of poverty in Hollywood.
-I have had a bad run with US Microbrew beers, the last 4 or 5 different varieties I have tried have not been nice at all. To me anyway, I guess when the brand is called "dogfish head" what can you expect. It was rated so highly though.
Thats all. Jub
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