Aggressive woman on Sunset Strip

Peep-hole Art

The Dry Strip Joint

From the Getty

Bye bye Camel

The Getty

Bye bye black Mustang

We're about to launch off to NY but I thought I better get this one sent off before dawn. We had a big day yesterday and dragged our carcasses back to the Radisson at LAX for one last time. We left our chic room in Hollywood after dwelling a little too comfortably long. It had been a big night.

I had to get the camel back to Australia and today was the only day to do it. It was locked up at the Radisson car-park waiting to be guided to Schumacher Shipping. Jane drove the Mustang using the sat-nav and I followed nervously behind. The traffic was light but I was a bit tense due to the likelihood of just one little thing going wrong and being forced to kick the Guzzi into the gutter.

The people at Schumacher's couldn't have been better though. They let me sit in their office, use their computer, gave me some pizza and generally greased the wheels to get the bike on its very tired way. I was very relieved to climb back into the car completely disencumbered of 300 kg of impedimentia.

We struggled to get the sat-nav to take us to the J Paul Getty Art Museum. Never buy a Garmin, say I. The thing had us scratching our eyes out sometimes. So unintuitive and unhelpful. We did eventually get there but only had an hour. The guide-book said it was open until late, so we were going to have dinner there, but we ended up back in the damned traffic again. The museum, from what we could see of it, was huge. We managed to see the Da Vinci exhibition and some of the old masters but didn't get a look at the sculpture garden. The place is set on top of a hill and is worth a second visit one day. Shame the sat-nav cost us an hour.

We dropped the Mustang back to Dollar Rental near LAX and caught the bus back to the Radisson. The bar was worth a look, so we drank to a huge, fast-forward series of events packed into half a week in LA together.

We've done a thousand miles on the east coast and I have done 6000, all up. Ten thousand kays over a month in the USA.

We've booked a hotel near Grand Central Station, mid-town, and are set for a bright-eyed day headed for JFK. unfortunately we lose three hours going east but we should have plenty of energy for NY night-life. Sorry to brag. Your time will come.

Better go get that flight.