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[Otei]

Well I'm finally here. After a lengthy 11 Hour flight that included the weird sensation of chasing the sunset across the timezones, demonstrated by the photo above, I arrived at LAX.

The first thing that struck me was how friendly and efficient the airport check in staff are compared to the sour faced majority at Heathrow, asking you if you were ok, and generally having a very pleasant demeanour. Bear in mind that this is a country that has more reason than any other to be highly suspicious of anyone stepping on or off of a plane!

Amy drove me home to Topanga in her rather large Toyota Tacoma truck at about 90mph, bumper to bumper with all of the other crazy dudes in L.A



It was dark when we got through the driveway, but the Eucalyptus trees could be smelt as we drove up to the apartment. Topanga is a real hippy canyon area that has quite a history of being home to musicians and artists and all sorts of freaky beatnik types ,daddio. Jim Morrison of The doors fame used to jam here maaaaan!...far out.

I had done my best to try and stay awake on the flight, watching loads of movies from the huge choice that Virgin Atlantic offer (great airline) and only nodded off for about half an hour. When I finally got to bed, it was pretty much like my normal bedtime of 12 midnight, but in Uk time, I'd been up for 24 hours. I was still buzzin' though and demanded to go and get a Taco bell and a huge 40 oz beer, as it was someting I'd wanted to try for ages.

we stopped at a gas station to fill up the truck and a woman pulled up in a black VW beetle of the modern shaped variety. I swear she'd had her hair cut to match the car, shaved down the sides and back with a big bubble of jet black hair on top. I didn't have the balls to take a pic, she looked like she had the propensity to carry dirty Harry's Magnum in her purse. V.Funny.

When I woke up this morning, I got quite a view. The views out of the apartment are lovely, and there are some of the hugest, spiky, alien lookin' plantlife you ever did see. The bloke upstairs has hummingbird feeders hanging on his veranda, I kid you not!



View up the driveway through the Eucalyptus trees.



We'll be taking Amy's R6 that I'll be riding to the bike shop to have some suspension and brakes work done on it today, then to be honest I don't know what we'll be getting up to as she has to go to work at some point, but there's certainly no shortage of stuff to do.

I think I'll borrow her RSV Mille and check out the canyon roads. WOOOT!

Take it easy peeps, I'll update as soon as I can.

Otei.