Arrived in AMERICA!
The international flight from Brisbane to Los Angeles has been OK. Have had two nice Americans sit on either side of me and have had a good old chat (about 30-50 years old each). Whilst the conversation hasn’t been exactly flowing it has been quite interesting – Americans certainly are different to us, especially in work ethic. Of course, that’s an over-generalisation but like any person I can only talk about what I experience!
When I went through the new beefed up security check-point in the Brisbane domestic terminal I was randomly chosen for an explosive test. Basically sniffed over with an electronic vaccum as well as my bag – was fairly quick (less then two minutes) but what was strange was that when the officer pulled me up he gave me a piece of paper and told me to read it. It was just an explanation that I was one of the lucky few who looked like a terrorist and needed to be sniffed. I just found it weird that he couldn’t have told me that rather then read a piece of laminated paper.
So far there’s been a few little developments since our group of merry travellers left Brisvegas. Arriving in Sydney we decided to pool our money together and purchase a new Sony TRV-22 Handicam duty free. We were even able to bargain for a carry case and battery in the deal. Greg says he’ll pay for it all when we return back to Australia – so I guess you could say it’s actually Greg’s camera. But for now it’s the groups Camera – hopefully we’ll be able to get a few nice movies.
Adam has proved to be yet again – controversial. This time the poor sod got himself searched at Customs in Sydney. Nothing too bad, just a swiss army knife in his backpack! Not a small one either, blade length about 5". What’s scary is that he unknowingly brought it with him through the Domestic flight to Sydney! Just goes to show that accidents do happen.
That isn’t the half of it though – Franger and Wilko managed to get seats together and thought it was wise to have a drinking competition. In a nut shell, Wilko lost. Perhaps it was the 9 mini-bottles of Vodka and Rum in 3 hours or perhaps it was the high altitude. Either way, Wilko made friends with the ‘Lavatory’ for quite a bit of the flight.
—- BREAK —-
Okay so I’m now in the hotel, and everything is fine. The hotel is nice, and it looks like Franger, Greg and I will be able to share the two double beds by combining forces and having Greg sleep in the middle. Hopefully it won’t be too long before he’ll fall in the gap and be crushed to death.
We went walking around our street – Santa Monica Blv. It’s quite nice, open spaces and lots of stuff to see. What we quickly found out though – is that this is the Gay capital of L.A.. Greg has made us sworn to never tell anyone we’re staying in the Gayest place in L.A., but I think it’s okay for us to know. The only problem is as a group of five guys walking around, we get some ’suggesting’ looks from Gay couples and guys walking around.
Later on we walked to this place called the Beverly. It’s a shopping centre 7 stories high with 5 stories of car parking. The remaining 2 stories has lots of boutique and expensive shops, including an awesome Sony store! Man there was an AIBO there, cute little bugger.
We we asked around for some greasy fat American burgers, and found something pretty cool.
As the photo suggests, I’m a bit tired after 30 hours of being awake; but after a nice greasy Johnny Rocket double blast off meal I’m good to go!
It was a very ‘American’ place, with American stuff all around. I can only say this after years of watching American movies and stuff, but it ’smelt’ American. Franger managed to score himself an Authentic Johnny Rocket cup.
Being the sensible Jet lagged Australian’s we are, we caught up with some of Frangers overseas friends and headed out to a pub… err I mean bar. Place was called ‘Barnies Beanery’ or something, and it was full of American junk on the roofs and walls. Had a few pints of beer there, tasting all types of foreign beer. Took a little while to realise the ‘light’ beer actually means ‘Low Carbs’ (everything here is low carbs, even freaking beer!) and doesn’t mean low alcohol level. Ben realised after seven ‘lights’ the Americans were giving him, he was getting pissed off that he was getting drunk over lights – but thought it was cool that he’s drinking ‘good’ beer.
Had a game of air hockey and ‘foosball’ with various Americans, and it was fun. Franger and I had a fast and furious game where Franger managed to smash the hockey puck off the game table and into a waitresses head. She was okay after a few drinks but swore that Franger was going to get his ‘ass kicked’ by her boyfriend. I was waiting for a gun to be pulled or something.
Of course there was the ‘USA vs Australia’ foosball game, where regrettably we lost – but I guess it’s more of an American game then Australian and they did have a home ground advantage. Next time you USA dogs!
So time to get some freaking sleep now….. I have a funny feeling sleep is going to be a precious commodity this whole trip. But so far, it’s been awesome!
WATCH OUT AMERICA, HERE COMES THE ‘AUSSIES’!!!!
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