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  Los Angeles, California, United States
Saturday, November 10, 2007

It's Saturday and we head to a Californian town called Victorville for a Route 66 classic car show that we've heard about. There's a huge range of gleaming vehicles and their beaming proud owners. Tim can't believe his luck and, as usual closely inspects all the muscle cars as my eyes begin to glaze over once again... We're soon on the home straight to Los Angeles, negotiating the mess of highways and ramps with the help of our trusty sat nav. We're staying in West Hollywood again, but in a different spot. It's the Alta Cienega Motel where Jim Morrison lived from 1968-1970 in room 32. We spend our last couple of days in LA winding down. We visit Downtown LA to take a look at the two different MOCAs (Museum of Contemporary Art). We're lucky enough to see a huge Murakami exhibition. Unfortunately, its also time to face the reality of returning home and replenishing bank accounts. I'm offered a job interview in Melbourne, so have to arrange a flight straight out of Brisbane once we arrive from LA. We finally return our trusty stead, the red Mustang and head for a late night flight from LAX..

Nova

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Goodbye America, land of excess! Where you can buy 'favour' with God by making a one-off $1000 donation to the TV evangelist channel. Where 'budget' hotel bathrooms are festooned with 15 white, fluffy towels. Where cars are so big they dwarf industrial machinery. Where the government provides super-sized car spaces for gas guzzling super-sized cars. Where TV adverts market pharmaceuticals like candy, ensuring that you can tell the doctor what ails you AND what will fix you. Where soda is served in bucket-sized receptacles with free refills. Where you can drive-through to get a coffee, do your banking and to fill a prescription. Where you can conveniently buy your liquor and a shiny new rifle in the same establishment. Where casino and tobacco licenses are given as peace offerings to indigenous people. Where buffet restaurants have seriously appropriate names like 'Chuckorama'. Where main meals weigh in at 5kg and are served with take-out containers so you can take your 4kg leftovers home with you. Where strip malls are so big, long and endless that it's wonder that we ever found our way out... Hallelujah.

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Chevelle	Nova	Camaro	Nova
Big motor	Road runner	Road unner	Stingray
GTO	Blown	T	Camaro
Raod runner	Road runner	572 ci !!!!	Chevelle
LA	SS	Challenger	What the !!???
Jim's old room	RT	LA	SS

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