[] Anna, she is good []

Wow, time has really flown this past few months, I haven't even thought of blogging until I came across photos from this summer.     Blog time, fo' sure. 

Ok, so I've been going out to L.A. for the past few summers and I am totally loving it.  This past trip was totally different in that I got to do more touristy things, which at first I would have never thought I would be into.  Anna, my dear friend is soooo good to me when I am out there.  For example, she lets me sleep in, and then she lets me take her car and explore for a few hours. My first destination is always a coffee shop where (with my decaf) I can sit and watch people, the bike culture, and think about things...Anna is soooo good to me because she knows I need time by myself each day to feel like myself.

Anna had a very relaxed itinerary for the week, which she knows I would be totally content sitting in her back yard looking at the sky, but I was excited for the things she had planned.  Three of the best things we did:  a sunset tour of Hollywood, the Getty Art Museum, and Salvation Mountain.  I'll do three separate entries just so I can really write out the details and make each post as photo rich as possible.  But I will start out first with our sunset tour.

The 10 passenger van with the top chopped off  beckoned us as we waited just outside Graumans Chinese Theater (the place where stars put their hand print in cement for us to oogle over).  Our driver was super at two things: being really sociable and driving like a maniac.  It was so much fun.  We stopped at various famous places and drove by tall hedges, shielding important people from being bothered by people like us. Riding through the hills and back down to old Hollywood was beautiful, and since we weren't the ones driving, we could actually look around and relax.

Hollywood has so many different personalities: dirty, immaculate, filthy rich, calm, jumpin', vast, cramped, squiggly, straight..we got to see all of these in about two hours...

 My camera and my brain are on high alert when I am out there...everything seems so new and fun...maybe that's why vacation is so important for the human mind? I know it is for mine...