So after my arrival in LA i spent acouple of crazy days partying watching funny as open mic nights and comedy nights in the hostel. They were very very good the talent was fantastic from phil pub crawl leader at the hostel who rapped in away i had never heard before and a candian magician who had me to be his assisstant ,teh level of talent was high.. so many artists in hollywood get away from the plasticness the down to earth artists who have a love for their craft are brilliant i went up to san francisco,- took a small door to door shuttle with otehr travellers up to usa hostels went through the desert boring as scenery. But ppl cool.
I loved san fran , height asbury area little italy, misson district, cool neighbourhoods especially all those unique shopson height street great people were great friendly, a hint of reserdness, passive agressiveness going on there but sincere but always worrying about how they were going to pay their rent.That seemed to be the main topics of converstation in san francisco( it was easy to meet locals or other people who had moved inter-state)it was how am i going to pay my rent this week in LA it was how am i going to pay my car payments ,,,? or if not that check out my car! well a guy in ahot car in La will get the girls i suppose i admit i tdouble take when i see a hot car.. tehn the guy suddenly becomes hotter.
Surprisingly i found well san francisco. really romantic you know its wasnt teh bridge or scernery as such which was nice .. but just the whole energy of things there. It really sems like asiide from rent prices would be a lovely place to live longer term . it was like melbourne (cultural things emphasised here) witha touch of sydney energy (not as brash but cosmopolitian like sydney and faster pased like sydney like in the financial district , and the the bridge ewaterfront remninded me oof sydney
) and geographically the hills reminded me like wellingtonand also easy to get around liek wellington and melboune if not gbetter and more interesting if you found a job you really likes and paid excellent well you would really be set. some parts were a little bland and sterile, i liked the areas that were nice but a bit edger had character, the richer areas seemd well a little dull.Everyone in san fran would go " i love your accent its so cute!!"especially the guys. I have to admit while i wa sthere i had a great time..yes it was romantic, on xmas eve , francois made me a made me a three course french meal it was amazuing he went to so much effort and got me work at cafe bastille in san francisco as holiday help over xmas.. tehy speak spanish in the kitchen and french in the restaurant i wa sthe only fluent english speaker.it was a little crazy. A really nice guy pierre i worked with him and helped me to get free french food every day i worked it was great!we got a three course meal .. really home style french food.
xmas was fun at the hostel... we would go across the road to this italian owned store grab bottle of millers beer for $2 every night leading to xmas and lots of drinking games.we also had a buffet meal at thge hostel which the food wasnt that great but better then nothing
after teh xmas festivities i wanted to head on as i wanted to head to mexico.. iknew that this could be my only chance for a while!
so italked to this irish guy who had a car who was wanting to go down teh pacific highway road ...i was excited as i had always wanted to do this. we headed off early i went and picked up my pay check and cashed it then off i went.
we stooped off in santa cruz it was fantastic i liked there .. nice park we went and wondered around the boardwalk then had dinner on the waterfront at twilight irt was a really flash restaurant amazing views witha ll the pelicans..had a great fish i think called mahimahi i cant reamebr its from hawaii i was great i had it a few times in america.after santa cruz we went or montereey and staye dthe night on a highway hotel cheap as only $60 per night for two .tafterwwards went to carmel by the sea drove around took photos then went to the big sur .. took more photos. its a rea;ly lovely drive great photos. which are on facebook. then went past santa barbara and ended up in LA. stayed at venice beach hostel for two nights then got a ride with these guys from Finland who took me to the hostel in hollywood went for look at hollywood rock shop and went to areally famous place which sold guitars to teh richa nd famous liek johnny depp came in one week before and eddie van halen is a regular customer.he bought a guitar for $6,000 dollars! apparently when we were in the shop a guy who featured in nickolton movie was in the shop. i didint recognize. LA was fun over new years crazy as though.. the hostel is just off hollywood blvd and sunset strip smack bang in the middle of hollywood. on new years there was apaarty at the hostel , then decided to go out walking along sunset strip was crazy all tehgse guys passed out on the ground who taken too much of everything , guys getting into fights with guys for losing keys for their guys (but the guys were crying not fighting) see in hollywood its all about the cars!
cops everywhere ... which i took photo os cops they chased us alittle then once they heard my accent and i said i was just a tragic tourist they laughed walked away.
it wa sfunny when i went back to the hostel it felt like a 2nd home ...last time i was tehre nicole australian girl from perth was in my rooma nd i went back and she had been in hawaii and taddahh there she was coincidiently inmy room. after new years we were pretty hung over went to ruhyon canoyon were all famous clebs walk tehre dogs , orlando bloom apparently very snobby though he runs up therea ll the time.saw jack nicolson house, went on a tour of LA and beverly hills saw playboy manshion and arron spellings house. apparely on one tour once a guy tried to climb on to arraon spellings gate to take a photo and teh security guards came out with a gun and almost shot him, ppretty intense!
WENT TO LITTLE TOKYO HAD YUMMY ramen learned about japanese americans assimilation into american life . china town wss cheap as , clotehs for $1 , nice pretty tops, cute bags, shoes, yum cha for $5.cheap as chips. live smakes everywhere.
after seeing what i wanted to see, booked a bus online to san diego through mega bus for $15 (no way in hell was i ctaching greyhound in LA)
out of all teh places i visted in my travels i found lA the dodgest by far, (except Kula lumper- if your blonde is probably more dangerous) a girl got beaten up by a group of guys while i was stying therealmost got raped but escaped (this was outside the hostel), countless people got held up by gunpointand mugged at metro stations , i got chased by a junkie , (actually in san francisco i went out with these nice turkish guys ended up in abad neighbourhood by accidient- tenderloun- everyone was junkies, homeless but somehow they were wearing more expensive clotehs then i was wearing,and was begging for money , i got circled by about ten junkies and the guys in the local corner store told me to get out pretty fast- as everyone was circling me in the shop wondering what a blond well dressed white girl was doing here- .
on my last day i waslked to teh metro station with my backpack in broad daylight thinking it would be fine what a mistake that was i got followed guys tried to grab my bags , it was really scary. La is really not made for the backpacker .
The first day i arrived these guys came over to my friends car and tried to grab all the bags out of teh boot we slammed it down fast and walked inside fast,.
so that was the end of my time in la, san fran
= i had this one saved in my draft box for ages - so only oublusehd it on my blog when i arrived back in NZ
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