Monday, February 26, 2007

Cali

First I am going to apologize for not posting sooner, so sorry about that. Pretty much since I landed here in California I have been riding and going and seeing the sites.

The Flight

I began the journey with Ken (friend of the family) giving me a voucher to try out the lounge at the airport. Now this is a VIP lounge so I thought I suited it very well. They had free beer, free wine, free anything and everything. It was a good start to the trip! Now on the flight was a lot different. 45min in to the air a guy had some medical problems. At first site the flight attendant thought he was having a heart attack, but he ended up being diabetic and had some complications. Now for the rest of the 4hrs there was crowd of people around this guy helping him. I for sure thought the plane was going to land…but nope we kept trucking to LA.

Day 1

I built my bike did a nice easy 1 hour ride and chilled. I needed the rest from the long day of travel. The roads in the area are pretty nice, really rollllllyyyyyy!

Day 2

I woke up and did a 1hr 30min ride around the town, trying to find the good loops, which I did! Then it was shower change and off to San Diego. We went to a few cool places, tried out local food and enjoyed the sites. We went to the Ocean, looked along many beaches. After we finished up with beaches Amanda took us to an outlet mall right on the Mexico border. First time I saw it, I was pretty pumped. Then home, then eating, then bed!

Day 3

Once again I woke up early to get my ride in, ended up doing a 2hr 30min ride around Lake Skinner. Nice loop, but a local told me the roads on the other side of town are better! Then Amanda, Morgan, Natalie and I went to the OC. Hahhaha oh man just like I pictured it. Nice cars, nice houses and mean people, just kidding the people were nice. We checked out a few malls in the OC, the girls shopped, I watched. Amanda brought us to this gated community where people like Teemu Selanne live, yeah massive homes. Lastly we went out for dinner a sushi restaurant, very classy.

Day 4

Woke up early to get my ride in, 1hr 30mins, home shower eat gone. Finally we were heading to my beach. If you haven’t taken a guess yet, then it’s called muscle beach. The funniest place ever, words can’t describe it. Every weirdo in LA hangs out there! From there we went to Beverly Hills, West Hollywood and then Hollywood. In fact I stood right around where the Oscars were. I got my pictures of the big gold men…it was a cool scene, lots of security.

Day 5

Laguna Beach, Newport and Huntington Beach. A day of coast lines, So many beaches so little time. The way to describe them is ski resorts with out the snow and ski, all surfers and surf shops. I have a tonnneee of pictures I will put up soon as I get them on my computer to show you how nice the beaches are.

That has been my activities since I got here. Now for some quality biking hours!

Cheers

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

sounds really cool kd. glad to hear you are enjoying L.A. life. talk to you soon...older bro and family!

Anonymous said...

Nice to see you blogging again, can hardly wait for the pictures, ride safe, your maw thanks you for that one...
Maw

Anonymous said...

wow KD, I am jealous of everything you are doing right now!!! Take advantage of all those beaches....
T.Baker