Tag: travel

  • I got to see Neil Hamburger live at a small venue in LA

    On Sunday night I went to see Neil Hamburger (with special guests) live at The Satellite, a small venue in LA’s Silverlake neighborhood. For those […]

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  • The Triforium

    Easily the strangest thing in downtown LA is the Triforium, a concrete sculpture covered in colorful glass prisms in a public plaza, surrounded by government […]

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  • LACMA and the La Brae Tar Pits

    I left the Hollywood History tour a little tired, but decided to soldier on via an LA Metro bus to see LACMA and the La […]

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  • Hollywood History walking tour

    This morning I took the LA Metro to Hollywood and Vine, the meeting place of another Downtown LA Walking Tour, Hollywood History. The name of […]

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  • Arts District tour

    Yesterday afternoon I took a tour of LA’s Arts District from Downtown LA Walking Tours. I had the same tour guide as I did when […]

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  • Grand Central Market

    On my last visit to LA I kept kicking myself for not taking any photos of Grand Central Market, the big local food hall downtown. […]

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  • Pershing Square

    Just like my last visit to Los Angeles I’m staying near Pershing Square, a public plaza spanning an entire city block. I’ve also found it’s […]

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  • The Last Bookstore’s upstairs labyrinth

    On my last trip to LA I just sort of stumbled across The Last Bookstore, a large bookstore selling new, used, antique, and rare books […]

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  • LA’s Union Station

    It’s been almost two years since my last visit to Los Angeles, a trip I accidentally over-planned to the point where I had three times […]

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  • The Peanuts statues of Santa Rosa

    All over Santa Rosa’s downtown I stumbled across statues in the likeness of Charles Schulz’s Peanuts characters (Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Lucy, etc.) They’re all about […]

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