The Travel Notes

My hometown of Los Angeles hosted 2 summertime games, 52 years apart.  The 1984 games were known for their budget frugality.  Some venues were recycled from the before games...like the coliseum...and the games genuinely earned a profit, which is used to fund local sports charities.  It was also known for the "Olympic Miracle" where, due to much scaremongering, people stayed off the streets in addition to traffic was a dream for 2 weeks - form of similar what happened during "Carmageddon" concluding year.  It is also the games where much of the Communist globe stayed away inwards retaliation for the U.S boycotting the Moscow games 4 years before due to the Soviet Union's involvement inwards Afghanistan. Picture courtesy of Wikimedia Bobak Ha'Eri nether CC-BY-SA license The coliseum is straightaway used for USC habitation games in addition to few other events.  Many inwards the surface area accept dreams for unopen to other NFL squad to motion in...

Note: this storey was originally written inwards 2002.  I've tried to update the data for 2010. Part 1 Here Day iv Today, nosotros desire to encounter the ocean. From Pasadena, we take the Gold Line to Union Station.  Take the Red or Purple Line to seventh together with Flower St.  Transfer to a southbound Blue Line prepare to Long Beach. At the halt of the Blue Line inwards Pine Square, nosotros board a costless shuttle that takes us to the Aquarium of the Pacific (from Monrovia, lead hold the 187 autobus to the Sierra Madre Villa station of the aureate line; from Claremont lead hold the Metrolink prepare westbound to Union Station) Union Station It's nice. We encounter enough of sharks, rays, together with sentry a sea Panthera leo show. You tin walk underwater inwards a coral reef, encounter divers feeding the fish, together with pet lorikeets inwards an outdoor aviary. A block away is Shoreline Village (and the Long Beach Convention Ce...

It's difficult to believe just of late Los Angeles was ranked every bit the  3rd well-nigh transit friendly city inwards the United States.  We've made huge strides hither inwards this sun-soaked metropolis inwards populace shipping inwards the final 2 decades together with there's to a greater extent than to come. We right away create got a subway, several lite rails lines, together with commuter rails to become along alongside our vast rider vehicle system.  The ane affair nosotros don't create got (yet) are signs at the stops together with well-nigh stations telling yous when the side past times side ride volition locomote coming similar they create inwards Europe. There are unopen to transit apps for your smart scream upwardly or tablet that tin locomote utilized to diverse effectiveness.  We're going to set the top iii to the test...NEXTRIP, NEXTBUS, together with the LADOT App. NEXTRIP is used past times Foothill Transit to predict when the side p...

Another Sunday, some other beer festival. Actually THE Festival...so awesome that it needs no other moniker. Today, it's inwards an former warehouse inwards San Pedro at the oral cavity of the Los Angeles Harbor. The edifice has been repurposed equally crafter's supermarket together with The Festival volition move occupying the infinite at the other end.  A novel brewery, Brouwerij West, is turning the edifice adjacent door into their new headquarters together with is helping sponsor this event. Watch the Video! Over xc breweries from unopen to the basis are hither today pouring samples.  Each two ounce sample is a buck, or yous tin purchase 25 for $20.  Beers, ciders, mead, together with to a greater extent than are representing the U.K., Canada, Spain, Japan, France, Germany, New Zealand, Belgium, together with all across the U.S.A, to cite simply a few. Getting our wristbands together with earthworks into the crowd, Letty starts off a...

Courtesy of Wikimedia Googie Man nether CC BY-SA 3.0 license Tim pitches inwards for this Hollywood calendar week amongst his picks for the best pic of 2013 ahead of this Sundays' Academy Awards broadcast... Today I finally got to encounter the celluloid Nebraska inwards my bespeak to encounter the best painting nominees for the 2014 Oscars. It was really good. I accept forthwith seen vii out of the nine films upwards for consideration As of correct now, it is likely inwards the middle of the pack for me. If I were to orbit them correct forthwith it would become similar this: 1. Dallas Buyers Club- I cannot tell plenty proficient things almost this movie! Top notch performances from Matthew McConaughey, Jared Leto as well as Jennifer Garner. The floor focuses on many social issues that are nevertheless prevalent inwards social club today.   2. 12 Years Influenza A virus subtype H5N1 Slave-Best celluloid of the twelvemonth as well as then far. It serves eve...

Updated Feb 2014, novel materials added later on Union Station below... I'm non going to endeavour to prevarication to yous or carbohydrate coat in, downtown L.A. is pretty much a dirty, depressing concrete jungle filled amongst all kinds of dissimilar characters.  At night, it pretty much becomes a ghost town.  Still, it's a large goal for tourists. I've spent years here, exploring the area, in addition to every directly in addition to thence I come upwards across some hidden niggling gem.  Here are some of them, niggling bag gardens in addition to parks that yous wouldn't know were at that spot without looking. Let's start off at Union Station because this is where yous should begin.  It's where the lite rail, subway, commuter rail, in addition to many motorcoach lines converge.  Chances are you'll larn inward in downtown here. Union Station has 2 beautifully landscaped garden areas on each side of it's massive lobby.  The S garden i...