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Los Angeles Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Los Angeles, United States
Big City Reunion
This is a top pick! ... twelve lane highways stretched as far as I could see without any intervening countryside. It seemed we would be in Los Angeles forever when suddenly our turnoff arrived and we were there - Disneyland. Completed under the watchful eye of Walt Disney ...
SoCal for five days
This is a top pick! After leaving Sayulita, it was about eight hours by bus to Mazatlan. We arrived in Mazatlan about 10 pm, and had to leave the next morning for the airport at 5:30 am, so we decided to just crash at one of the hotels surrounding the bus station. We ...
Day 1, Pt.1: The Thirty Hour Flight
This is a top pick! It's 10:30ish Tuesday morning. After leaving nearly all my errands for the last minute, I've finally finished moving out and packing for my three months abroad. Jeff shows up, him, Dan & I load the luggage and monkey into Princess (Jeff's car), and ...
LA Story
This is a top pick! ... Someone at the ATM was discussing a recent shooting in town which fills me with confidence for the next few weeks in the States. I am warning in advance, there will probably be quite a lot of me whining about how stupid the gun laws in USA are over ...
California , I'm coming home
This is a top pick! ... take out the Starbucks , McDonalds and tourist and some other places, Hawaii is another exotic polonysian island. Los Angeles is the only place in the United states where more people take their dogs to coffee bean than their spouces and New York ... ...
Escape from LA
This is a top pick! We walked a little way along Melrose with our bags and it was nice and fresh for a change. After a great day yesterday we both feel pretty chirpy and a little bit more Christmassy. We jumped on a bus at the corner of Melrose and Vine and squeezed our way ...
Day 91: Journey's End at In-N-Out
This is a top pick! Back on May 22nd when good ole Singapore Flight #### first began its descent into the Kathmandu Valley, I wrote that the zero-g moment and landing gears popping out shot my heart into my throat and nearly gave me a panic attack. "OMG what have I done, ...
City of Angels
This is a top pick! ... like being in L.A. So this was the first time I was spending some time visiting tourist attractions that I associated with being in Los Angeles. From my base in Melrose I did lots of walking around during this weekend. And at all times of the day ...
California Dreamin... or not so much
This is a top pick! He Said: Well we came, we saw, we walked, we rode, we waited in line and by the end we couldn't wait to leave. Two days of Disney was more than enough and so by the third day we'd all pretty much had enough of the Mouse and his various Disney pals. ...
Lights, camera, action on Los Angeles!
This is a top pick! We disembarked our turbulent flight from Japan a little greener around the gills and a lot more bleary-eyed into the much-anticipated Los Angeles. In true California style the weather was a very sunny and a lovely 24oC or so. We hopped on a shuttle bus ...
Leaving America...
This is a top pick! Thursday Jun 3 2008 @LAX Well its finally happening; Jessie and I managed to squeeze what would have been months of organization into about a month and a half to fit our timelines, and it worked! We are on our way to India! After some choked-up ...
A Day of Planes
This is a top pick! ... The first plane is an MD-80 to Dallas and then we're on a 767 to LA and then we're on a 777 to Shanghai. 1:00PM (Los Angeles) We're sitting in the Admiral's club waiting for the next flight. Our flight has been delayed and instead of leaving at 2pm ...
Universally Speaking
This is a top pick! ... our travels with fondness. I’ve bought myself a bit of time by forgetting to charge the camera, what that in mind I better crack on. Los Angeles is not as bad as everyone seems to make out. Well it isn’t for a day or two anyways. You do get ...
LaLa land
This is a top pick! Hello again, Forgot to mention that in Vegas we saw Limahl (I know!)though we were too shy to shy to say hello, though Paul did say hello to Boris Johnson in Ceasars, he looked just like on the telly - dazed & confused. We have been total tourists ...
Home sweet Home
This is a top pick! Ahhh, home again, my puppy Jasmine is as excited to see me as ever!!!! Here are some of my after thoughts of this trip and Peru in general: 1) It is definitely one of my TOP trips, the sights such as Machu Picchu and Cusco are just Amazing. ...
Everybody goes to Hollywood
This is a top pick! ... the plane at 5am to a Bucks Fizz breakfast. That is the States done and our first coutry conquered. I had a brilliant time in the States and will never generalise about America again as it is a million countries in one. It has some of the nicest cities ...
One full loop round the world
This is a top pick! Well we finally made it back to the States on a stopover, one full loop around the world! But we aren't quite done yet though. The Dominican Republic is next on our list, but there was no direct flight from Fiji! We couldn't even fly ...
Hip hop in China
This is a top pick! ... in Beijing. "There's a lot of cats that can rap back home," said Jeremy Johnston, a member of the group and the son of a United States Air Force captain. "But there's not a lot of cats that can rap in Chinese." Mr. Johnston, 33, moved to Beijing in ...
And the most popular destination is . . .
This is a top pick! ... ". Lonely Planet marketing analyst Adam Stanford said that the rise of the US can be linked to exchange rates. "The United States is obviously becoming increasingly popular due to the exchange rate of the dollar," Stanford says. "Making what was ...
Almost time!
This is a top pick! In about 24 hours we will be heading to the airport to start the 28 hours of flying to get to Bali. Luckily, we are flying bidness class (that's business for all ya'll that don't speak Jonny). We have been in training for a little over 2 weeks to prepare ...
Universal Studio Fun
This is a top pick! Today was a day we have been looking forward to for quite a while. Today we headed to Universal Studios. There were so many cool things to do there we didn't know where to start but finally decided on the 4D movie based on the movie ...
Recap
This is a top pick! ... . I do hope to go back. Having my final morning sorted by Dave and meeting Ellis on his lunch break, I caught the greyhound to Los Angeles. The view on the way up the coast, consisted on beach on one side and housing on the other, but aside from that, ...
Leaving tomorrow.
This is a top pick! Rachel: Jodie, are you packed yet? Jodie: Are you kidding? We don't leave for another 19.5 hours. And so it begins. (Well, it actually began in February.... we were living in a tiny little (but cute) apartment in Madison, WI- tearfully ...
Introducing Carlie
This is a top pick! After having a long long sleep the day before, we had to be up at 6AM to meet Carlie, Megan's sister, at the airport. Eventually after seeing her come out last from the arrival gate we headed off to catch the train to the new hotel in ...
Why are gas or petrol prices rising? Dumb answers
This is a top pick! As you may or not know, we are running out of oil on this planet. Yes, that's right. It's about time we found another planet or two for all us. In the meantime, we've got to put up higher gas prices at the pump. China increased its prices 16-18% ...
Nadi to Los Angeles - Day 291
This is a top pick! Hasn't quite hit home that I'm flying back to the UK tonight after nearly 11 months away. My flight leaves Nadi at 10.50pm and I arrive in LA at 1pm on the same day. I effectively reach the US before I left Fiji due to crossing the International ...