Culver City
Travel Blogs from Culver City, United States
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Preparing and Partying
The car was in the garage to get its brakes serviced. In the evening Linda invited us to a party in her house in Beverly ...
A Night Out
... this was his hideaway - when things at home with his family got difficult he would tell them he was going out of the city on business for a few days and then come to this apartment to chill. The apartment was small, comprising a bedroom, lounge, ...
Car Trouble
A trip to Big Bear Lake sounded like a good idea. On the way the car over heated, so we limped back home and spent the rest of the day flushing the cooling system. In the evening there was some respite: Laurent had been invited to a party, so we ...
Decorating the Car
We bought red, white, and blue paint and applied it to the bonnet and the boot (in American the hood and the trunk). When we had finished a Union Jack proudly dominated the back and the front of the ...
Car Repairs, Again
We took the car cooling system to pieces, cleaned out everything, and fitted a replacement radiator we had bought from a nearby car ...
Packed and ready to go!
All packed and I'm ready to go. Heidi helped me pack, isn't she great?! I'll miss her so much and she's been so great with the fact that I'm going away. Believe you me, I plan on making it up to her! Her and Miles are going to hold down the fort while ...
T-minus two days
We decided to try to do a travel blog for this trip. You can subscribe to this blog (similar to my podcasts) and you'll get an email whenever we update it from Argentina. We plan to upload our trip in text, photos and video. Its Thursday night and ...
Dispatching the Zody Box
It was planned to leave today but it didn't happen: we were still short on energy. We cashed our remaining pay cheques, and then went to the port at Long Beach with our Zody box, ready packed, to ship back to ...
Swimming, Malibu Beach
Today, Northwards around the coast to Malibu Beach and back through the striking Topanga ...
Sorry about the break
... the way down to the welcome sign. . .3 and a half hours :). In Los Angeles, there wasn't much to do at all, the city's too big to get around simply on foot, and it's too much money for public transport; my hotel wasn't even near an underground station. ...
Friday, 9/12/08 12 noon
The morning I left was chaotic and rushed as always when trying to leave for a long trip. I still had cleaning to do, final packing, close up the house and take the garbage out. The car arrived 30mins early! I answered the door with wet ...
Horse Riding
... behind the ranch. It was beautiful, although the horses seemed to go the way they wanted. We managed to get back to Culver City with a couple of lifts via Huntington Beach. Back at home, Mr Brown had already arrived with his catch of two ...
Beverly Hills
... a beautiful mansion, huge lounge with massive sofas all around, a patio outside with, of course, a swimming pool and a view across the city, which was impressive as the sun went down. We helped ourselves to a couple of drinks and food, and talked to ...
Back across the Desert to Los Angeles
With just 4 hours sleep we drove out to Lake Mead, where the water was warm for swimming and there was great scenery. A guided tour of the Hoover Dam for 30 cents each was very good value for money, and inside the dam structure it was a comfortable ...
Rest and Preparation
It was a day for recovery – we slept until 1300. And it was a day for preparation for the next trip: we cleaned the car and the equipment, and took the car to the garage to have the tappets adjusted. We had dinner with Laurent and then went to the ...
Playgrounds
With an early start, we visited Knotts Berry Farm at Buena Park, a theme park of life in pre-war California: it was quite well done and a pleasant place. Then it was on to Disneyland in nearby Anaheim. The best shows in Disneyland were ...
More Resting and Preparing
It was a lazy day. Some preparations were made. In particular we decided to ship home spare clothes that we considered we would not need for the next trip (we had already acquired a box or two from the Zody warehouse, without getting shot). ...
San Francisco to Los Angeles
... . He was going all the way to Los Angeles and once there took Bob and John right to the door in Sawtelle Blvd, Culver City. It was an exhausting day, but a great introduction to the American people: everybody was so friendly, kind, and generous. Our ...
Looking for a Job
The morning was spent on the telephone trying to find jobs. It was unsuccessful. The next try was at the State Employment Agency where the staff were very friendly and helpful. They found us work at a clothing warehouse of Zody, a chain ...
Independence Day
After another beach session with Linda, Leah, and Laurent, we finally met Don Brown, the father of our host and the owner of the house where we were staying. In the evening we all went to see the fireworks at Venice Beach in celebration of this American ...
The Zody Warehouse
Started work at the Zody warehouse. It was not particularly hard work: it comprised sorting clothes that were delivered in bulk from various manufacturers and packing them into boxes according to orders that had come in from the individual stores. The ...
Home!
Made it home. The lost our luggage, but it'll show up soon enough. I'll go back and update the entries later in the ...
EPILOGUE
This trip was not only an incredibly fun time, it was a great growing experience. On something like this I had no back up plans and no one I trusted more than just a few scattered friends. This put me in a position of 100% self ...
LAX
So I got into LAX at like 11:00 p.m. local time with a Mexican woman and a Guatemalan Man that needed my help finding out where to go... so I went to the first airline agent I could find so I could figure it out for all three of us... She was in the ...
Day 28
Day 28 Ok, so I have another friend in town that's been doing post production for about 9 months in LA. So, I dropped her a line last night on facebook and turned out she had time to grab lunch with us today. So, we met her at an awesome bakery in ...
Deal or No Deal
After much driving in circles and cursing whoever laid out the streets in Culver City, we arrived an hour late to the taping of Deal or No Deal. We had tickets for the new syndicated version, and even though we were and hour late, they wisked us into a ...
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