Nov 25 - CA

By April | November 27th, 2005 | 1 Comment »

Day 116 – LA - we hit the streets of Los Angeles in full swing early in the morning. First stop – Walt Disney Hall and the Music Center. Only pictures can describe Frank Gehry’s work, it was inspiring to see.

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Then, we viewed the plaza area of the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels – very nice also.

A sculpture garden at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels

After that we visited El Pueblo de Los Angeles, which was okay. The market was a bunch of tourist shops with Mexican type items. Little Tokyo was next, though it took us a while to find it, and we roamed through a few not-so-tourist type streets.

Thom Mayne’s Caltrans Building in Los Angeles

Just a street scene in the Toy District.

We ate a great lunch of yakisoba in Little Tokyo. We have been excited and planning this since Wednesday. It was a fun area to walk around and I got to see parts I didn’t go to last time I was in LA.

While driving in LA, I received my official “welcome to the city” as we drove down highway 101 towards downtown. A not so happy man yelled at me quite loudly (my window was up and I still heard him) from his little sporty convertible, going about 75 mph, as I ever so speedily (as fast as a 1981 air cooled vw van can go) merged onto the highway. Hey mister, so sorry to slow your day down – it’s not like there aren’t four other lanes on the highway you could use also. Did I say four lanes, I mean five or six. I can’t believe how wide these highways are in this city. I have to say at one point the highway had more lanes than I could count safely (I would have gotten into an accident trying to figure it all out). Jason counted 8 lanes at one point and it never got smaller than 5 lanes – about 6 to 7 lanes was average for Los Angeles. This research was mostly done cruising down highway 405 south from Manhattan Beach and southbound on highway 101 into LA.

another sunset ends the day