No Thru Traffic

Before this trip, I had only spent a few hours in Los Angeles and had seen virtually nothing. I wasn’t impressed.

Well this time around I spent about three whole days there. But I still feel like I’ve seen barely anything. And I still wasn’t that impressed.

Our gracious host, Eric Sugihara affectionately known as Sugi, was awesome. For the second time this trip we had someone welcome us in to their lives with open arms. It was so nice to see a familiar face and spend some time catching up. Sugi is a smart cookie too and started med school this week. So of course he had a box of human bones sitting in the living room. What, you mean not everyone uses a box of human bones as a coaster?

Apparently if he loses or breaks something it will cost him thousands of dollars to replace.

So naturally I touched them all. Who else besides mass-murderes, and medical students can say they’ve held a human skull? Well I can now, and I’m not sure that I liked it very much at all.

Anyway, about LA…

We went to the beach and it was awesome, of course. It was everything I imagined the beach in LA would be like. Except for the thick layer of smog. The smog was everywhere and you couldn’t even see the hills around the city. Disgusting.

Ryan’s weak coolant system on his bike meant that the terrible LA traffic made his bike cry antifreeze again. He says it happens to every CBR, but I didn’t see any others on the side of the road with us…

That is until we started lane-splitting. Which was so nerve-racking and awesome. I felt like I was Top Gun and every parked car on the freeway was a tower that I ruthlessly buzzed.

We then spent a fortune on soda and pizza at Six Flags with another good friend, Rico. They drinks were so expensive that these girls literally stuck their heads in the trash so they could recover discarded cups. We instantly regretted our decisions to pay.

I’d show you more photos but all I seemed to capture was a photo of us getting ripped off at a locker where my camera sat most of the day.

Oh, and this picture, of course. Rico loved the roller coasters.