Along the way, we stopped in the town of Primm for some breakfast at 'Whiskey Pete's Stateline Store'. I was extremely excited as Primm is a location in the game Fallout New Vegas which I have played a lot, and it really had a rollercoaster! Driving on, we decided to take a more interesting route to LA than the boring interstate, so took a detour through the Mohave desert. This involved lots of empty, bumpy roads sided by cacti and water-starved bushes. At most times we could see no other cars on the road - it felt very adventurous! The drive was a little boring, it is a desert after all, but got more exciting when we saw tumbleweed and an old train!
After leaving the desert, we followed the interstate on to LA, and boy was there bad traffic! For about the last 2 and a half hours of the journey I (notice mum made me do all the city driving again, huh!) was driving down super busy 4 or 5 lane roads, a bit different from the UK! We arrived to the Venice Beach area without incident however and settled in to the Encore Motel for the night, which although I had worried might not be great was perfectly nice.
A little short on time, we headed right out in the car to Hollywood, driving through Beverly Hills on the way (with much singing of Weezer of course) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4iTyHItFwg).
A little short on time, we headed right out in the car to Hollywood, driving through Beverly Hills on the way (with much singing of Weezer of course) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4iTyHItFwg).
Finally finding our car park, we explored Hollywood Boulevard, seeing all the tourist sites! The Hollywood walk of fame...
(Julie Andrews is my hand twin!)
After seeing all our favourite stars' stars and matching our hands to the celebrities', we headed back to Venice for dinner. We headed to a great place down the street from us called 'Eddie's Italian', heralded as a big lover of garlic and boy were they! We were served free bread with massively delicious garlic oil and my food had about 20 whole garlic cloves in it! The place looked a little dive-y when we arrived, but true to the online review we didn't judge a book by it's cover and it turned out to be a real hidden gem. The portions were large enough we kept half for the next day's lunch!
Full and tired, we head back to the motel ready to travel up the Pacific Coast Highway the following morning...
... along with the Hollywood sign and Grauman's Chinese Theatre. We even managed to catch a snippet of whatever musical guest was on Jimmy Kimmel Live by spying on the outside stage from across the street (apparently Laura Mvula?). Mum is a little annoyed that Bastille are playing the night after we have left!
After seeing all our favourite stars' stars and matching our hands to the celebrities', we headed back to Venice for dinner. We headed to a great place down the street from us called 'Eddie's Italian', heralded as a big lover of garlic and boy were they! We were served free bread with massively delicious garlic oil and my food had about 20 whole garlic cloves in it! The place looked a little dive-y when we arrived, but true to the online review we didn't judge a book by it's cover and it turned out to be a real hidden gem. The portions were large enough we kept half for the next day's lunch!
Full and tired, we head back to the motel ready to travel up the Pacific Coast Highway the following morning...
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