Said goodbye to Tracey and Mark and left Seattle at around 2:15 on Alaska Airlines headed for LA.  I wonder why Alaska Airlines just can't seem to arrive and depart on time...  Anyway, easy flight to LA and wonder of wonder the luggage monsters in Seattle didn't steal my dive gear this time.  I have about 5 more hours until my fli...

Special thanks to Warren's sister Valerie for letting me stay and starting off my trip with awesome hospitality!  And thanks to TJ my roommate for the use of his truck, and Andres for driving my butt down to LA.  Unfortunately my new Ipod took so long to download I had to stop it to leave the house, so now I have no music alphabet...

Whilst in LA, my cousin took me to visit Parmahansa Yogananda's Self Realization Fellowship. I attach a few pictures. It was a moving and beautiful experience and I cannot find the words to describe it.... utterly peaceful and beautiful. Some of Gandhi's ashes also lie here. When I walked into the windmill and sat, it was utterly peaceful. I fee...

All you can say about LA is they voted in Arnie as Governor! Disney Land was fun, but Universal Studies is better any day of the week, I think it was more for older kids rather than Disney which is a little kiddy. Rodeo drive is ok, no celebrities around that we could see. We did go on a walking tour of Beverly Hills which was fun, and we may ha...

Cool, just got interviewed by CNN. I burbled quite a bit so I doubt I'll make it on to telly but I got to say my bit. Of course, in hindsight, I wish I's said other things such as how that many people (and the rest) have died in Africa this morning already. In other news, I pfaffed with the computer quite a bit this morning. Now, I'm off to the ...