The Westin Bonaventure

... up our car and made our dash downtown to our Hotel. The traffic was unbelievable, no one was moving. We checked into the Westin Bonaventure, and was given a very nice upgrade to a Suite. Our room is just amazing, its actually 2 rooms and 2 bathrooms. ...

... is impossible to imagine!) we set off down the hill among the impressive skyscrapers of the Financial District to the Westin Bonaventure Hotel. This hotel looked fairly conventional from the outside - four glass towers around a central hall. However, ...

... When I speak of visiting or traveling I rarely accept an overnight as unit of time. There were occasions when I would remain in Bonaventure hotel for only 3-4 nights, but then there were times when I would reside with friends for a week or two, or ...

After a pretty festive night on the town, we finally got out of bed and headed down to Chinatown to enjoy a piece of Los Angeles history.  We'd seen Philippe's on The Travel Channel before, and it had Paul salivating, so it definitely made it on the ...

For the second time in one trip, we changed plans on the fly.  Not so uncommon if you knew the pair of us.  The difference on this occasion was that we were weary from a hike at Runyon Canyon and an afternoon at the Natural History Museum, I ...

I think subconsciously we were saving this stop for the grand finale.  Both of us were salivating at the thought of having some Ethiopian, not ever having it before!  Little Ethiopia is at a crazy intersection along Fairfax Avenue, with little ...

Once we got settled into the hotel room, we headed down to the metro station in downtown to catch the rail to Koreatown.  The nice thing about staying in downtown is that you are right on the rail, and so are most of the ethnic areas that we planned ...

Originally, we intended to go to El Mercado in East Los Angeles for some authentic Mexican fair, but getting out of the house in the morning proved to be a bit more difficult than we thought. Plus, we had to backtrack slightly to Huntington Beach to get ...

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Took the Amtrak train from San Diego, CA up to Los Angeles, CA.  We only stayed a day or so in LA, where we visited Hollywood and Long ...

This is a very special year. My Best Friend's turning 40. She really wanted to go to Italy this year. We have been talking about this for years. Unfortunately, not with me in crutches. I had injured myself on the 4th of July on hike coming back from Mt. ...