Category: Misc
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How I pack and travel light
Sometimes people ask how I travel for several days, weeks, or even a month with nothing more than one backpack. In this post I explain my methodology. Hint: it involves laundry. Traveling with minimal luggage isn’t something I ever set out to do because it was “trendy” or whatever. Like many people I kept bringing…
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Los Angeles 2025 wrap-up and stray observations
After flying into Los Angeles via the Burbank airport, my first two stops didn’t go as well as I’d hoped. First up was the Old Zoo in Griffith Park. It’s kind of depressing to imagine any animal larger than a mouse feeling at home here. The park itself was also partly roped off for construction,…
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LA River and Secret Stairs tour
On my last day in Los Angeles I took a walking tour of the LA River and Elysian Valley. The area covered is roughly between Silver Lake and the river. When most people think of the LA River today — if they think about it at all — they tend to think of a dry…
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Delusion: Harrowing Of Hell
Continuing the Halloween theme in Los Angeles after going on a Chinatown ghost hunt and attending a festive funeral procession, I decided to take the plunge and check out this year’s Delusion haunted house experience. While I’d never visited previous incarnations of Delusion it didn’t really matter — this year it features an all new…
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Downtown LA Taco Tour with a local food critic
Last night I stuffed my face on six or so tacos via an Airbnb experience called Taste the LA taco scene with a leading food critic. The other guest(s) on the tour cancelled last minute to it was just me and the host, Patricia, a food critic who’s worked at various publications. The walking tour…
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LA Arts District Graffiti/Mural Tour with a local street artist
Six years ago in the “before times” as it were, when the pandemic shattered everything, I took a wide-ranging tour of the Los Angeles Arts District from a tour company that is now sadly defunct. During this trip I wanted to go a little more in depth on the street art aspect of the Arts…
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Chinatown LA Ghost Hunt from The Haunt
On Saturday night I went on a spooky adventure looking for signs of the paranormal on a tour of New Chinatown with The Haunt. The guide for our group, Rory, told us the tales of prohibition-era corruption, racist redevelopments, mysterious deaths, and unmarked graves. (See this post for more about LA’s New Chinatown.) But there…
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Watts Towers
I first learned about the Watts Towers as a kid when I randomly came across a TV movie called Daniel and the Towers on PBS. The movie tells a fictional story about a boy who slowly befriends a cantankerous oddball named Simon Rodia as he builds a set of towers and decorates them with colorful…
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I tried float therapy so you don’t have to
(But you might want to try this one!) My therapist is always telling me I need to take time to relax. No, that’s not the setup for one of those quirky The New Yorker cartoöns, it’s the reality for those of us seeking treatment for insomnia. So far I’ve found that a quick meditation exercise…
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