Resting in the Mabuhay lounge at LAX now, I have another two hours to go before the flight leaves so I've been loading up on the free food here. Yummy, yummy for my tummy I say. The flight from Denver was fairly uneventful, the one point of interest is that the flight was not so crowded, I actually had a whole row of seats to myself. Joy! Checki...

The flight was about 6 hours, and so I arrived sometime in the early morning. After taking the public transportation to downtown LA, I met my couchsurfing host, and left my bags at his work for a couple of hours while I walked around downtown. Then we headed back to his house in one of the surrounding neighborhoods/towns around Los Angeles. That...

Took 2 buses to get to Santa Monica this morning. Quite worrying as we're not really sure what bus numbers or where to catch them to get back. Walked on Santa Monica Pier and watched the filthy surf (it's the most polluted beach ever, I think. The Rough Guide quotes such things as "disease", "poison", "even the locals don't swim" etc.). We ventu...