Trip to Los Angeles area....is there anything to do there?

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skyking

skyking

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If you do take a drive out to Death Valley, try coming back through Lake Isabella and down the Kern river canyon. It is a nice drive and we had nice colors this last year in early November.
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Muse

Muse

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Muse said:
“America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.” Tennessee Williams famously said. :D
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To elaborate...

I have visited all 3 of those cities in the last few years, live 10 miles from San Francisco. OTOH, I have never been to Cleveland! Now, LeBron James is now playing for Los Angeles, not Cleveland. Nor the Knicks, Warriors or Pelicans.
 
MrSquished

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Look at the beautiful women who came to LA to become movie stars, but are halfway into starting in the porn business by now
 
SteveGrabowski

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If you want a lazy beach where you can just lie on your back and ride the swells Redondo Beach is great, plus I love stuffing myself with oysters at the seafood market on the pier there. If you want a beach with big waves that are fun to bodysurf then it's Huntington Beach any time there is a storm in Baja since it's south facing. Zuma Beach around Malibu is nice too and has good waves, and you'll surely recognize it from a billion different commercials. Mt San Jacinto out towards Palm Springs is a great hike on a clear day as it's like 10800 feet and you look out at the Coachella Valley that's like 500 feet, so it's a really prominent peak. Plus you can ride the aerial tram up to around 8200 feet making it a not too tough dayhike. Angeles Crest Highway to around the Mt Wilson area was always my favorite drive in the area when I lived there, though they had an enormous forest fire along it like a year after I moved out of the area and I haven't been on it since so don't know how scarred the area is now. Also highly recommend taking a day trip to San Diego to check out the Air & Space Museum with a big A-12 in front (a single seat predecessor to the SR-71 Blackbird) and tour the aircraft carrier they have open to the public. Thought it was even better than the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum in DC. If you're into old west stuff Vasquez Rocks along the 14 north of town is kind of cool since so many things were filmed there (including my favorite De La Soul video, RIP Trugoy). Another nice day trip is to take the car down the 5 to San Ysidro, park, and cross the border into TJ for the donkey show and to take a picture with the zebra. Don't drive into TJ though, the cops will rob you blind.
 
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SteveGrabowski

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Exterous said:
See if you can get stuck on the 405 for a few hours. Nothing more quintessential LA than that
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Best way to experience this is to take the 405 up Sepulveda Pass and then get on the 101 so you can be stuck there for a few hours too.

Still remember my first experience of how truly awful the 405 was. Had just started at UCLA and my friend from my building wanted to go to an Angels game so we left at 4:30 and still didn't even come close to making first pitch at 7:30 in Anaheim ~40 miles away. Ain't no traffic like LA traffic.
 
Captante

Captante

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I recommend a drive down Figueroa street just after dark ... might want to leave the wife and kids back in the hotel!

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