Aqua Inn Motel El Monte

... put it until I told him that he would find more luck at the cashiers next to the ATM machine. Dealers don’t give you your money, only chips to change up and slot machines don’t pump out cash, just vouchers which you can either feed back into the slot machine or take to the cashiers to convert into actual cash.

And cash is all important, the shopping is fantastic and if you have the money the sales in the designer stores were amazing, but as I didn ...

... that will take us to the Airport (from where we've booked a helicopter tour to the grand canyon). We take Sonya and Chris to the Cheesecake Factory (a bit of a favourite from our previous USA visit) for dinner, have a few drinks and spend a little cash in the casino before heading back to the hotel. Day 70 The heatwave continues - we have a day of walking/sightseeing and not much more - we must have covered 10 million miles today! Against advice we started out earlyish ...

... with a pretty roomate, loveable characters, a warm couch bed, hot showering facilities... and laundry on the patio. Leaving is acutely troublesome, while questioning the merits of being alone again. Sara is asleep this moment over there on the couch, I'm listening to "soundscapes" on the television. Gary, the cat, sits on the desk within arms reach and I polished off a coffee. Sara typically brings home a couple of beers to be sampled from where she works. I ...

... have a beer in the Hard Rock cafe & dinner in a fabulous chinese on the Universal city street, so we had to take the public transport route. This was easy - walk down the hill to the Metro, take the red line towards Union Station. Get off at Vermont & Wiltshire (approx 15 minutes). Walk out of the station & get the 720/20 santa monica bus. We got a 20 which theoreticaly stops at every stop however out bus driver was mental & appreared to ...

... regga fino al check in.. poso il valigione sulla bilancia del check in e l'addetto dell'air france mi dice che pesa un pò troppo ma avendo l'altra borsa molto più leggera mi conveniva fare un trasbordo.. (è si facile per lui.. entrambi stavano per scoppiare.. compreso il backpack nuovo bello capiente!) Mi informo se la sovrattassa si aggirava a 20$ e lui mi dice di no ma molto di più e che avrei dovuto chiedere all'altro reparto... vabbè opto per una ...

... of Fame, which is the footpath where all the celebrities have their names on stars embedded in the footpath. We also went to the Grauman's Chinese Theatre where lots of movie stars have left their handprints, footprints and signatures in the cement. The theatre itself is amazingly ornate and almost looks out of place in Hollywood. Next door is the Kodak Theatre where they hold the Oscars every year - we didn't go in but we had a look at the columns outside ...

Namaste everyone! Well, to my surprise my Far East adventure would begin in the American Far West. Before reaching Shanghai, I was shanghaied in LA. Red taped from Red China. OK, enough hyperboles and metaphors. Here's what happened... My flight itinerary included stops in several Chinese cities including Shanghai and even though my final destination is Kathmandu, Nepal, upon check-in, China Eastern airline told me I ...

... Promptly, the check engine light came on. Then the passenger rear tire of the trailer turned out to be flat. It was already late, we were tired and stressed, and Steven (the brother staying at our house while we're gone) was due to show up at any minute to move in. It took us another 2 hours before we had things fixed and ready so we could leave. We never did see Steven, so I guess he was running late too. The drive ...

... take us to the hotel. We have arrived in the hotel and i love it. We had a nap as soon as we got in there for an hour(because we only slept on the plane for an hour) and went to the beach for the rest of the afternoon. We are now having dinner. Goodnight!

... people. The tour ended in the Tonight Show studio. We asked our tour guide if the dancing girls was a typical pre-show occurrence. He chuckled and asked us, "You saw that too?" He told us that that pre-show was not the norm, but it was the best one he has seen in the past two years. Lucky us. We next made a quick stop at a clothing store called It's a Wrap. All of the clothing was made actors and extras in various TV shows, but some were new and some were used. They some good ...