Los Angeles, California

 Los Angeles - the land of movie stars, fake boobs, butts, pecs and let's not forget In N Out Burger.  It's crazy how long the drive-through line-ups are.  The burgers are that good, but the fries sadly taste like freezer-burnt cardboard to me.  Darren loves his In N Out, so we were some of those crazies in the long lineup, only 32 cars this time.  We would have gotten off of our fat butts and walked in but it was impossible to get into the parking lot to park due to the crazy drive-through line-up (true story).  It took 32 minutes to get our burgers. C'est la vie.  If you have never tried one you should.  I ask for extra onions on my double. 


The first thing I noticed entering California after our flight from Puerta Vallarta was how dry it was.  Spending a month in the jungle-like humidity of Banderas Bay Mexico leaves your skin feeling moisturized and your lungs feeling great.  Los Angeles, California does not.  I needed to put lip EOS on every 30 minutes and when I breathed in you can feel dryness in the back of the throat area.  This might be also due to the pollution, who knows?

I wish I could say that I love LA, but I just don't.  The traffic is a nightmare and the smog is not pretty.  They call it the City of Angels, to me it is more like the City of Hell.  Sorry to any LAites that may be reading this.  I do know what hell is because it is Saskatchewan at -40 below with a windchill and your lungs can freeze if you stay outside too long.  That's hell and so is LA.  I feel you.

We did the norm when we were visiting LA for 3 days.  We drove down the Walk of Fame, yawn and drove down Hollywood BLVD and Sunset BLVD.  Holy crap there are some bigguns there.  I saw a house that looked the size of a shopping mall.  Seriously what do you need that much space for?  What was cool, was driving up Laurel Canyon.  Those houses are hanging on by a thread.  They are one solid earthquake away from destruction, yikes.  Anyways, we will undoubtedly return because LAX is a cheaper airport to fly into.


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