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I think this week has been the longest that we all haven't seen each other - 6 days!! We got together at Zip Fusion downtown and as usual I was the last one to arrive as Joy, Tracy, Nhi and Doris were already there enjoying Soju and edamame! I was happy to have seen Doris before she left for a home cooked meal at her best friend's house!! I laughed so hard watching Joy chase Doris out the door as Doris dropped WAY too much money before leaving!We had a blast as normal, but also got down to bu...

Well, we decided to have another dinner out, since Ragnar was leaving the infamous LA Core Crew - how could we not send him off without a great send off?Ragnar we completely enJOYed your company! I can't believe how well you've just blended into our CORE!!!! It was GREAT having you here and I hope that you enJOYed yourself as much as we did! You are the new HONORARY member of the LA Core Crew!We hope that you return to us soon and party again with us at the LA TB HQ!!! You are always wel...

For the last time I moaningly woke up in my luxurious Paradise Inn & Suites Motel. A cold shower, a tooth brush and some packing later I was ready for a day of adventure and the unexpected. When I threw my suitcase into Tracy’s car the first thing I didn’t expect (nor realise) was, that I left my beloved S’Oliver jacket behind. Shite!Jenn, Tracy and me went for brunch at the Figaro Café. These guys were like professional holiday managers, constantly making plans and phone calls and...

it was inevitable that foodies had to eat… together.  so goes the story here.    martinikitty13 and i met mellemel8 and tre69 for the first time.  we all had dinner at BAR HAYAMA -- a new sushi joint in the new japan area where sasabune used to be.  …and because we all love to eat (and take pictures of our food) all 4 of us had cameras and took pictures of the food -- it was actually quite hilarious.BAR HAYAMA opened on 7/7/07 at 7 pm (according ...

I was logining into TB, then to my surprise. there is a picture from the LA MEET UP on the login page. the picture is from JENN79 blog. however, some peope were missing this picture....YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!!!!!!!!! what awesome group of peeps :) THIS WAS A FUN "TB MEET UP" I HOPE TO GO MORE ESPECIALLY THE "TB MEET UPS" ABROAD. FOR ALL THOSE WHO HAS NOT BEEN TO ONE. TRY TO JOIN INTO THE CRAZY AND WILD FESTIVTIES. I HOPE TO MEET MORE "TBs" I LOVE THIS SITE. FUTURE "TB MEET UP" GO TO TRAVEL M...

The end has come to the Hobbit Harem ~ at least for right now...George is leaving us tomorrow and Tracy and I have decided to take him out for his one last hoorah! We are sad to see our Sultan of Surfing leave us, but we know we will see him again very soon ~ either here in LA or down in Hua-ma-tu-lu-cu-co ~ where he will take us surfing, white water river rafting and take me to that special waterfall that I've always been entranced with.Tracy had thrown out some suggestions for different res...

Monday was going home day...always kind of sad when you're having so much fun away from home.  Joy took me to the airport at noon during her lunch break, but I was able to hang out at NBC once again for the morning.  We had breakfast at the commissary...egg white omelets, and then got to see Jay Leno's water powered van that he drove to work.  Now that's what the people who DON'T HAVE MONEY need to be driving.  After arriving at LAX, and going through security, I waited ...

The LA "Core" CREW minus one decided to get together and hang out at a local sushi restaurant and enjoy each other's company! So, Jenn (Jenn79), Tracy (Tre69), Nhi (hirondellenhi), Doris (Martinikitty) and I (pvtjoy) decided to have an enjoyable evening of sushi and conversation! What a wonderful evening to share with some amazing women. WOW...can you believe I met them all here on TRAVBUDDY!!!! Way cool!We decided to hit up ZIP fusion Sushi restaurant. It's located over in downtown LA over b...

December 8th, 2007 goes down in history as the largest TravBuddy Meetup in history!  Well, at least so far.   Held in an alley in downtown Los Angeles.  Yep, that’ what I said, an alley!  Now if someone had told me before hand that this was going to be the case I may have though twice about attending.  I used to live in Southern California and had to go into downtown LA to work once in awhile.  I still remember the hundreds of homeless people that would panha...

the festivities of the night before has definitely been a memorable one.  luckily, my memories of the night before remained somewhat intact when i awoke at 7-ish am. at such an early hour, it was not surprising that my fellow TB's were not quite awake.  ok, they were all still out like a log.  so, i patiently waited until the house woke up... around 10-ish am.  no worries, i amused myself by surveying any online damage wreaked by the previous night's festivities.&nbs...

  These are some pictures from the L.A. meetup at Rusty's Surf Ranch on the Santa Monica pier. It was my first TravBuddy meetup and what an adventure it was!

This is the beginning of the unbelievable f**king GREAT time I had this weekend with fellow TBer's!!!!!!!Love It!OK, so it's 5pm, Friday May 16, 2008! What happens? My Northern CA girls call me and tell me they are in town already! Whoo-hoo!!! "mzjulz85" (Julz), "poohstanggt" (Erin) and "Jillianj" (Jillian)!!!! We are ready for tonight!!! We are going to party HARD!!!!Can you believe how amazing they are? They decided to do a Travbuddy ROAD TRIP for this meet-up! They all drove down from...

Farmers Market (6333 W. 3rd)(Fairfax)(Cheap).  I love love love farmer's markets and this is the original one located at Third and Fairfax.  There are a ton of eateries in this place.  My favorites include:  Bob's donuts (for yummy donuts, cinnamon rolls, beignets), the French crepe place, Loteria Grill (delicious tacos and yummy watermelon drink), the Malaysian place.  Sorry I can't remember the names…   Pitfire Pizza Co. (Downtown LA/Hollywood/Westwood loca...

Tonight was the retirement celebration for Drs. Donald and Marjorie Bray, who are a husband-wife couple and head of Latin American Studies at Cal State LA. I haven't known them very long but right away I knew how special they were. Donald's class was one of the possible electives for my post-bac International Economics certificate so the first time I met them was March of 2007. Some students have had them for 6 years (undergrad and grad school). Tonight was really touching as CalState is forc...

Ok, So let me in on the action.  We arrive in LA... took us a while to find it.  Vic's navigation system was not really helping us.  And we gave our only direction print out to Janene in case we lost her.  Which we did.  We exited  on 4th st.  because we at least knew that the Edison was on 2nd street faily close to the freeway.  We took a short tour of Los Angeles.   There were detour signs and one way streets... so we just drove in search for 2nd...