Santa Monica, United States Travel Blogs

Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area
Jun 19, 2007 (10 photos)

I slept in for the first time on my trip.  It was nice to sleep in a comfy bed. I drove to Santa Monica National Recreation Area.  There I drove along the coast on the Pacific Highway.  In Malibu I got off and walked the Malibu Pier and ...

Rags and riches to a little celebrity spotting
Oct 21, 2008 (21 photos)

After our short departure from the United States we were ready and charged up to tackle the great state of California. Of all our time in the US we decided to spend most of our time in California for the simple reason that it has so much diversity from its ...

LA - El Paso
Mar 22, 2006 (4 photos)

After being with Joe and his roommates did I decide to try to go to New Orleans. It took me a lot of time with pubilc transportaion just to get out of LA - so I ended up with taking a train the last way to San Bernardino. It was kind of late when I got ...

Old friends
Jun 2, 2009 (5 photos)

... - now we'll see how long it takes us to head up the coast, turn east, and wend our way home! ***** June 1st, Santa Monica, CA at Mary and Murray's We arrived yesterday at Mary and Murray's - our dear friends from Post Mills who have moved out ...

George Clooney........I know where you live.......
Oct 28, 2005

... much is that the city changes from OH MY GOD ITS GORG!!!!, to a "I am so pleased I am not walking out there alone".... Santa Monica, like anywhere in the world has its nice places and its not so nice places but I am shocked by the amount of people that ...

Santa Monica Pier and Venice Beach
Nov 13, 2008 (13 photos)

... joined back up to the 101, and then back to the 1 around Oxnard. We then followed the 1 down through Malibu, and into Santa Monica. We're staying at the Travelodge here. Got the "Honeymoon Suite." Basically the same budget room as all the rest, but it ...

Venice Beach & Santa Monica Pier
Nov 7, 2007 (10 photos)

... there & back again, stopping for a large piece of pizza ($2.75 cheap!) before heading back to our truck. The next stop was Santa Monica Pier, which was pretty cool, although the little fun park there wasn't open. We got some nice views of the beach, but ...

Raratonga, Cook Islands
Sep 22, 2007

Wow, had a bit of a flash flood this morning. Was planning to hire a bike along the cycle path but the bad weather stopped that. I'm flying to Raratonga in the Cook Islands tomorrow night from L.A. So I hope to do lots of snorkeling, cycling and ...

Santa Monica
Sep 21, 2007 (7 photos)

I'm now here in sunny Santa Monita staying at the HI. I'm in the Santa Monica library as it gives 1.5 hours of free internet per day. A lot cheaper than $2 for 20 mins at the HI. Looks like I wont be able to upload any photos here, can't at the HI ...

Highway 1 to LA/Santa Monica
Mar 14, 2006 (10 photos)

... - I was totally wasted. The next day I called a guy (Joe) that I had found on HC, he lived with 2 other roommates in Santa Monica. The fact that I were only 19 became once again an issue - because Joe was a really party-animal - and it made some hurdles, ...

Santa Monica And Venice Beach
May 17, 2008 (12 photos)

Pics from Santa Monica and Venice Beach

Santa Monica
Sep 1, 2008 (2 photos)

It is the Labour Day public holiday so lots of traffic on the roads. The drive from San Luis Obispo to Santa Monica was mainly Highway driving. Some of the houses were incredible to look at, though. They seem to get more elaborate as we drove towards ...

Santa Monica
Nov 19, 2006

... gathered to the hostel without having to lug it on the bus. The hostel was clean with good facilities but just lacked atmosphere. Santa Monica itself was really nice. Its a good place to people watch down on the beach. All sorts of things going on ...

Santa Monica
Feb 1, 2007 (2 photos)

... during the "ads" though we didn't ask him any. After a meal on the lovely Third Street Promenade, we watched a beautiful sunset over Santa Monica Bay. Now it's an early start tomorrow to board Amtrak for the trek north. Better haul out our sweaters.

The Getty , no not really.
Dec 30, 2007

Mom's here and we're going to have a good time....

L.A. Inconsequential
Nov 4, 2009

After yet more driving, we found ourselves in Santa Monica, staying with a friend of mine named David. I've only actually met him once before, the first time I was in Vegas, and this lack of knowledge about my real character meant that he was more than ...

Baywatch and Gucci
Aug 1, 2009 (2 photos)

... and on the Pacific Coast Highways really early and did a tour of the coast northwards via Huntingdon Beach, Long Beach, Venice Beach, Santa Monica and Malibu. Highlights along the way were the Queen Mary which is now moored in Los Angeles and used as a ...

cycling
Feb 5, 2007 (2 photos)

hiya Rented a rickshaw type bike and Colin peddled to Santa Monica and I rode in the back in relative luxury! When we got there visited the pier and had a few trys on the fairfround attractions. Hoping to go and look round Hollywood today!

Santa Monica - Warner Bros and Hollywood
Sep 2, 2008 (5 photos)

Today was awesome - Warner Bros studio tour was unreal - we had soooo much fun and learnt so much about films and sitcoms - the museum was unreal because it had displays of costumes from Harry Potter, the Matrix, 300, Casablanca and heaps more Warner Bros ...

Bruno
Sep 23, 2007 (2 photos)

I saw Bruno from Dance X and Strictly Come Dancing etc. He was judging a dancing talent contest on Santa Monica beach together with American judge Carrie Ann. I hired a bike along the seafront through and beyond Venice Beach. Will be off to airport very ...

Santa Monica
Sep 19, 2006 (5 photos)

Santa Monica 10/9 2006

San Diego to San Francisco
Aug 14, 2005 (8 photos)

... 3. it was 7am! What a joke. I have visual evidence of my offending position and the beautiful car i have managed to blag. Santa Monica is very nice with a great shopping boulevard which looks like the Prom in Chelt. but longer. I stayed just one night ...

LA und Ians Geburtstag
Jun 17, 2009 (19 photos)

... tollen, Beachvolleyball, Basketball (immerhin Freiwürfe) spielen, was man halt so macht in Venice Beach. Danach einchecken im Hostel in Santa Monica, noch mal runter an den Strand auf ein Bier (natürlich aus der braunen Papiertüte) und weil Ian (Schweitzer) ...

Santa Moncia
Dec 2, 2005 (3 photos)

Alison, Barbara and I arrived in Los Angeles on Friday December 2. Saturday travelled from the Clarion Hotel at LA Airport to Santa Monica on public transport where we walked on the pier, the beach and around the downtown. In the afternoon we saw Walk ...

Santa Monica - Renata and Big G!
Mar 19, 2008 (5 photos)

... -matches.  We ended that part of our trip with a little preparation for the next step a hike in a nearby park overlooking Santa Monica an the Pacific. All in this was the perfect starting point for our trip an it was great to see and spend time ...

Staying at David's House
Jun 14, 2009 (74 photos)

... impressive and he did them so quickly.  He even painted one for each of us.  That night, we went to Pink Taco on Santa Monica Blvd for dinner.  We then went back to David’s house to get ready to go out.  However, when Chris put on ...

I thought it was going to be LA by the beach!
Jul 20, 2009 (22 photos)

... the buildings, galleries and having lunch. Despite being a moody Shangri-La, it was a lovely art deco hotel with a very nice pool. Santa Monica has a lovely sandy beach, with a path that goes all the way along the front (to Venice and then by- ...

Santa Monica
Sep 11, 2008 (6 photos)

... Ende der Route 66... Wir liessen es uns nicht nehmen auch hier einige Photos zu schiessen... Da saemtliche Hotels in Santa Monica entweder ausgebucht oder schamlos ueberteuert waren, beschlossen wir in einem Vorort von Hollywood zu uebernachten und zu ...

San Diego to Santa Monica
Jul 31, 2006 (6 photos)

... Beach. Quite ugly. Decide to bail out and head for Santa Monica via I-710 to I-405 to I-10. Noon - 1:30 Arrival at Santa Monica Pier. Eat the worst hamburger and worst fries ever at the Harbor Grill on the pier. 1:50 I-405 merges into I-5. 2:00 ...

Day 7 - Dialogue matters
May 25, 2008 (4 photos)

... day was rich. Taylor invited me this big youth event sponsored by the SGI that was happening at the World Culture Center in Santa Monica. He informed me that he would be helping out as event staff (called Soka Group, behind the scenes youth training group) ...