Los Angeles

This is not a pretty city. Oups I said it… The city is huge, and we have not really found a heart or a center to it.

First thing we do in the morning is going to see the Hollywood panel!

Then we walk a little in the center of Beverly Hills, and enjoy a meal at The Ivy, classy restaurant for Peoples. I think the guys just behind us are making a casting for their new film, they are recruiting the heroine it seems!

We take advantage of the afternoon to explore downtown LA. Just to discover that the Grammy Awards ceremony is about to begin, right in front of us. However we have neither the proper outfit nor the tickets to get in…

The dinner is a bit hard to find, but we end up in a reproduction of a little town in South Hollywood. We have a nice pizza!

Western USA – Feb 2012

Where to start…

Well, maybe by the begining. Adie got 2 weeks of vacations, and I got the mission to plan something for those two weeks! Initially we thought of a trip in LA, San Fransisco and Vegas. So I took the flights, a car to be able to move from one city to another, and the first and last hotel.

The flights:
MIAMI -> LOS ANGELES, departure Sat 11 feb – 8h40
LOS ANGELES -> MIAMI, departure Sun 26 feb – 7h05

Hotels:

Coral Sand Motel, 11 – 13 feb, north LA
Super 8, 25 – 26 feb, LA airport

I rent a car on Enterprise, economy car.

We took only 2 cabin luggages, no check-in luggage. It is cheaper, and quicker. We had mostly our day-to-day clothes, leather jackets, but no camping gear, sleeping bags, etc…

On Saturday 11 Feb morning the Adventure starts! We wake up pretty early to catch a taxi for the airport. More than 5 hours of flight later we land in LA, it’s cooler than in Miami but still pretty warm (around 68F – 20C). We are heading to the car renting facility.

After a 20 minutes wait we are able to get our car. Surprise! We have a nice Nissan Maxima instead of an economy one!

We spend the afternoon in the traffic jam and Santa Monica.

After a long time in the car, due to traffic jam, we finally arrive at the hotel. The picture has been taken on the next morning however. We eat in a reproduction of an old saloon, there is even a rodeo on going on a fake buffalo. Beer, Burger and Ribs are on the menu 😉

Then we go to bed early, 3 hour of jet-jag makes it not so early!