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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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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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Haunted Ghost Tour from Wild SF Walking Tours
Over Halloween it occurred to me that I tend to gravitate toward “ghost tours” everywhere I go, but I’d never taken any traditional ghost tours at home here in San Francisco. The tricky part it turned out was figuring out which one to go on — there’s a surprising number of such tours from different…
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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 the tour company is kind of a misfit here as Hollywood is not located downtown. The first thing anyone should know about Hollywood Boulevard is — if the two wax…
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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 I took the Chinatown and Little Tokyo tour on my last visit, and as it turns out he’s intimately familiar with the local art scene through his other job as…
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Gaslamp Walking Tour
During my first visit to San Diego I remember walking across a busy street and set of train tracks from the Convention Center to the Gaslamp Quarter (or Gaslamp District, depending who you ask.) According to the big sign crossing Fifth Avenue the Gaslamp is the self-proclaimed “Historic Heart of San Diego.” The neighborhood’s promotional…
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Historic downtown LA walking tour
I spent the morning on a long walk through downtown Los Angeles on LA Conservancy’s Historic Downtown Walking Tour. I won’t go over everything on the tour, but I’ll cover a few stops I found interesting. The Central Library is actually two buildings glued together, and aside from books and such it’s also home to…
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City Guides tour of Lands End: Sutro Heights
I’m no good at planning, so it comes as no surprise that I’d neglected to make plans for Labor Day and had to find something interesting to do at the last minute. I figured I’d go on another City Guides tour — I’ve been on dozens of these — and somehow managed to pick one…
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