Wife is taking a shower and I am blogging. The hotel has free wireless internet connection.
Things went up and down quite a few times in the past day and half.
First of all ever since the end of Chirstmas holidays, it began to rain like hell all over the Sunny State, from Tahoe all the way down to San Diego. Our plan A for new year's holiday is at the mercy of the weather as well as plan B - that's the worst part. Plan A is to visit LA (mostly Disneyland and Hollywood) and San Diego (a friend relocated there because of work stuff). If the rain does not stop, it will be quite the opposite of fun for sure. Plan B is going sightseeing and skiing in Tahoe. However due to heavy storm and the altitude of the Tahoe region, it is getting even worse... Our near 200k-mile Civic, although understated, will probably start loosing grip of the planet as we go further north in the snowing reagion, but renting a 4x4 is like... burning a hole in the budget.
We finally took a gamble and took I-5 south, betting that the weather could not possibly get any worse if bay ares is drenched. We were delighted that it was sunny and almost charming after the clearing storm although sometimes we drove into under a raining cloud the size of a mile or two. But that's it. The clearing storm is much better than dull clear blue sky, with a few rainbows as a little surprise. Best part: LA has a snow-capped mountain. For a split of a second we were wondering whether we were driving to, Tahoe?
Disney was fun, especially when my wife made a mistake thinking that the Twilight Zone is some kind of haunted house. It is, as a matter of fact, a drop zone featuring multiple, irregular 1G-lauching and falling "elevators" in the so-called "hotel". I was never successful in tempting her to a test ride in the drop zone but this time, she dragged me with her into that only to realize the true story too late to call it quit. Result: freaking-out, testified by on-site monitoring camera.
Due to the last-minute decison of LA over Tahoe, we did not book and hotels. And there is no way we could have imagined how much Americans like to stay out of home on New Year's Eve. Yes, we planned our holiday so carelessly that we ended up going to Disneyland on the New Year's Eve and I only realized this AFTER we got there. Hotels are booked. 40-buck Motels are asking for 99 plus tax for one bed. Srew you! We are going somewhere else.
But where? Since the plan for the next day was Universay Studio, we figured if we were to spend so much for one night's sleep we better off staying close to Hollywood. And yes I took the Hollywood Blvd exit from North I-5. And it is Holly-shit. There is only about a 100-meter strip that does not look like a crime scene and the street is filled with drunk or black people screaming or flipping their car stereo with a volume good enough for half a mile. A black SUV filled with some rap-people were honking me and almost squeezed my small civic up to the sidewalk. I got angry and when another black dude ran a stop sign with his b*tch in a new Cadillac right in from of me, I stopped in his way nice and slow for 5 second and gave him a noise for another 5. I am a really nice guy, yo! I ain't no racist.
So I guess we are not coming back for Hollywood Blvd again, I am not a fan who come all the way to see some finger prints or ass prints on the side walk in front of a theater on a block which has no order. Any for the first time in my life I heard my wife saying that Hollywood actually sucks. She finally agrees on this!
3 am New Year's Day, still on the street! We decided to try one more time, at the Sheraton and Hilton at Universal Studio. Despite our painstaking resolution to pay a stupid amount of money for a sleep, there were all sold out, in a 8 mile radius. The closest vacancy is in LAX. Bye-bye.
So I suggested going to San Diego at 4 in the morning. And we did. It is a city, not like a swamp of maybe famous crap. And better part, since we checked in so early, we got two sleeps for the charge of one which means we do not check out until midday of tomorrow. And this is a real Hotel by the sea which happens to have everything and is "cheaper" than a shit motel in Los Angeles.
