Holiday Inn Express And Suites Hermosa Beach

... general public, so Universal would be the first test of my patience on the trip. Once we got there it wasnt very busy at all, I guess one of the bonuses of going out of season. Was a great day, everything we went to watch or ride, we had no queues...literally jumped on anything we wanted and managed to do all the rides etc in a day. Ended the day with dinner at Bubba Gumps.....went home feeling bloated etc etc...again another early night!!

Next day we took ...

... way I can think of describing them is that they are sort of like a sweet batter crossed with mini donut dough, poured out into lots of little bits, but in the shape/size of a pancake, deep fried I think (really healthy!) and covered in flavoured sauce and icing sugar. They were really good...in fact, they were so good they deserve their own paragraph! Thanks for the tip Glynis! In the evening we packed up and got ready for an early flight to Las Vegas the next morning.

... not found my bike box, so I have had to blow a few hundred pounds on a new one, but hey ho, it is a nice new box.If you remember, the back-up to getting the train was to get the bus. To do that, I would have had to wrap my bike in cardboard. So, I needed to collect a load of boxes and hide them in the town just in case. By then, my clothes were dirty, my hair massive and my beard crazy. So, when an old lady saw me carrying boxes and looking in dumpsters, she assumed that ...

... wrong to eating tangy mystery meats to walking around lost (again) well past midnight armed with a brick to being a jungle gym for a brave monkey to catching another most beautiful sunset to sharing memories of a lifetime with a random stranger turned new friend. Oh the wonders of life on the road do make me smile. The best memories of the trip were not just because of the people, the places, or the ...

... into land. I wonder if cat get ear pain and popping ears during the descent? We did hear after we arrived in LA about strange goings on, on our flight route that day. An earlier Boston/LA flight that day had a guy stripped naked and try to get out of emergency exit, only to be tackled by a member of the Revolution soccer team and the LA/Sydney flight that day was delayed 13 hours after a bomb hoax! We did some cool things at Hermosa. We saw a Beach Boy ...

... came in after work and we had dinner at a typical 50s diner : D We walked around the blvd and I will admit that we did stop by a tattoo place and there might be something there for me.. I'm feeling an itch to get something done : ) We found his car and drove through the city playing my recently purchased Boston's Greatest Hits and the city was just amazingly beautiful with all the lights on. The view got even better as we passed by Dan's ...

... bars we went too but it was a lot of fun! We eventually got back to the house at dinnertime, the boys made a BBQ and after that most everyone started looking extremally sleepy, Dan in particular who passed out around 10 : ) I ended up sharing a sofa with a not-too-tiny guy called Chris and was expecting not getting any sleep but actually slept like a baby all through the night. Must've been exhausted. So Sunday, we all got up and some of us went out for breakfast, and then down ...

... pleasing and scattered piles, a trickling creek running across them, sheer cliffs and a fun-looking tunnel through them. The owner let me have an orange and a lemon and an avocado from the ranch. I will cherish them always. On the other end of the spectrum, and speaking of the Style Network, the house my friend has lived in the last 5 years got re-done by the Style Network's show Clean House since I was there last. The house is rented by a ...

... Our flight was delayed an hour from Sydney, and Raymond was more than happy to have chattage with the girls during this time. Bless him! Note to selves: we must write a letter to Qantas. We also sat beside a lovely Aussie boy - Bruce (how ironic), who teaches Economics at Columbia, and the 3 of us managed to have a fantastic time! The lovely Dr Chambers put us onto some fantastic products which assisted in our sleeping abilities whilst on our long haul flight, and ...

... rid of half the money that was still in my U.S. bank account after my two weeks here: bought climbing shoes that just about kill my toes (they're supposed to be a tight fit) and two recycleable shirts made from already recycled plastic bottles... I thought that was a neat idea.