Los Angeles Travel Blogs - Page 8

A few pictures from the TravBuddy meeting in Los Angeles... Yes, these people do really exist outside of the internet!

I got into LAX about 8:45am local time and had to wait on my parents' plane to come in from Denver.  They got in around 11am and I met them at their gate and took them to the Admiral's Club for a drink and to get caught up.  I played several hands of the card game, gin rummy, and I beat h…

USA 2008 aug.3 ......... aug.25 From Chicago to Los Angeles by car. Chicago, Rapid City, Sturgis, Cody, Yellowstone, Jackson, Salt Lake City, Cedar City, Grand Canyon, Flagstaff, Kingman, Hoover Dam, Las Vegas, Barstow, Los Angeles.

Fri Jun 29   We stopped at Universal Studios on our 12-hour layover in Los Angeles.  We rode the Jurassic Park ride, which scared Josh to bits.  We watched Shrek 4D, splashed in the Nickelodeon splash park, and took a studio tour.  We got to see the set from War of the…

A few different places in Los Angeles

After a fun road-trip starting in San Francisco, we arrived in LA.LA is insane. From all the cities I've been to I usually quickly get a basic feel about the lay-out of the city, where everything is etc. Even for big cities like London, Paris or San Francisco this was no problem. But LA is simply t…

Wow, I never realised how much time it would take to get around LA.  So I ditched the idea of a Hollywood tour and just stepped on a bus from the airport to Santa Monica Pier and grabbed some shrimp for lunch at Bubba Gumps.  Walked down Broadway and Santa Monica Boulevard watching street…

Finally after years of dreaming and months of working out the best way to leave the navy,the time finally came for me to embark on my first great trip.Stacey and I woke up at around 4am and sorted ourselves out before and emotional goodbye with her parents(i had already done my goodbyes,extremely b…

My plan for the Labor Day weekend as of mid-July was to go to the Hollywood Bowl for the John Williams: A Hollywood Legend performance on August 30th with my brother, my soon-to-be sister-in-law, and 4 of their friends.  Since my dad was playing a golf tournament in the Palm Springs area, my m…

I get to LA and all the flights I would like to go on are gone. So I sleep in the airport and weigh my options.

to LA - 12 hour stop over before catching the flight to San Salvador rented a car for 12 hours - guess the hire company thought us a little "odd" when we asked for any specicials for a 12 hour hire !  Well if you dont ask! Visted Santa Monica - visited a mall and kept walking around - needed…

Left with Lisa early morning from LA. I didn't even have any coffee before I left and was quite proud of myself for temporarily breaking away from my chemical dependency. The idea to visit Sequoia National Park was a spur of the moment type thing. We both wanted to get out of L.A. for a bit and see…

As I've been up since midnight, west coast time, I crashed really hard when I hit the sack at 7pm. And how lovely it is to wake up from your adventure and find yourself featured on Travbuddy! =) Thanks everyone for the smiles. But right before I logged onto travbuddy I rolled around a bit in bed an…

I just got my passport in the mail yesterday!  Woo hoo!  If you're from the US and need help on how to expedite your passport to get it here in time, let me know.  I ended up researching everything and found pretty much all the options.  I still have to get my visa taken care of…

My parents had never been to Russia, and as children of the Cold War, they naturally had several pre-conceived notions about the country that made them a bit hesitant when I told them I'd be studying there for the summer.  So, in an attempt to become well-informed global citizens, they suggest…