Yo!
It’s been a few days since my last post and some stuff happened in that time. We did make I to Venice beach in our rental car. After some heavy traffic. Which was made bearable by our new favourite radio station 92.3, a great mix of classic r&b and I dunno soul? The beach was really nice and pretty colourful. We strolled down along the waterfront past heaps of shops and stalls. Most of which were covered in art and graffiti and merchandise. The street was covered in people on bikes and rollerblades and tourists. We stopped in at this place and got really nice burgers. The Americans have real mayonnaise which is great and so of course I smothered my fries in it.
After lunch we lay on the beach for a while in the sun. It was pretty windy when so we didn’t go in the water for fear of being cold after. The beaches have lifeguard stations scattered along them and the one at Venice are all painted really coolly in technicolour. Also there’s a long line of bins all down the beach. Bins on the beach! What a great/logical idea. We walked down and watched some skaters in this epic skate park and took photos of these ‘artist walls’ that were there specifically so you could paint on them. I think I managed to find the building Romy and Michelle live in, which was a plus for me. We walked down this jetty and then headed back to the car.
We drove on down the Santa Monica, where there’s a pier with a rollercoaster and large Ferris wheel which is pretty neat. Before this though we ran into Spider-man and having noticed my excited expression (I guess) he asked if I wanted a photo with him and we posed together. Then he mentioned he took photos with people for tips and I gave him a dollar because I’m pretty cheap and also I was under the impression that actionwas Spider-man’s only reward.
We looked around Santa Monica and headed home.
The next couple of days we spent in the confines of the hostel lying by the pools and reading and eating free cookies. I finished Tarzan, which I would highly recommend and sat on my wayfarers, which is a total bum! Also we bought sim cards and after some hassle getting my phone unlocked Justin and I both have functioning cellular telephones. (Please refer to facebook for our respective numbers.)
Saturday we caught a bus downtown, it’s really kool! Lots of high-rises and old theatres most of which I think have been turned into churches, which I found kind of depressing. From there we caught a train from Union Station onto Sunset Blvd and we walked for a couple of hours passing some studios, making our way through Hollywood again and ending up in Beverly Hills. I managed to find (and take a photo of) the Belisarius studios (the company that produces NCIS) so i can only assume that's where they film NCIS and that McGee was somewhere inside, sigh. I was looking out for Rodeo Drive but couldn’t find it in the end. From there we caught a bus home to play some pool.
Also I should mention our hostel’s free hot food buffet. They offer four items: rice, potato gems, corn chips and fries! Once again kind of cheap. But we bought some tuna and made a real dinner out of it.
That was our last full day in LA! The next day we rented a car and started our drive to San Francisco, stopping at Six Flags Magic Mountain along the way. They have soo many roller coasters. Our favourites were the Tatsu where you're harnessed in facing the ground and fly around like that, awesome scary and the Goliath which is the tallest and fasted coaster in the world, i think. The Goliath is 255 feet tall going down an almost vertical slope reaching like 100 miles an hour at some point; not sure but it's freaking kool. I should also mention the X2 their newest attraction. On this one the seats are on either side of the train and spin independently, it's massive and actually scary! I recommend everyone looks it up to get a better idea of what it's like. Alright?
Today we drove for about six hours watching lots of hills and farms and some really nice scenery. We stopped at some truck stops and looked around Oakland; a city just across the bay from San Fran, really pretty. Then we drove on into San Fran and had a cruise around, including across the Golden Gate Bridge. It's soo nice we're both really excited for the next three weeks. Tomorrow we drop off the car and get picked up by Geo. He's the nice man whose house we're staying in for the next three weeks. I'll probably write more about him in the future. That about wraps it up.
Love and peace
Josh and Justin...
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