Ok, blog take 2....I just wrote it and somehow lost it!
Well we made it....after a super long first of August! The flight was long but relatively comfortable thanks to a OneUp upgrade to premium economy. The only pitfall is that you don't get to choose your seats so we got stuck in the middle of the middle section 🙄 Apart from that it was pretty good with comfy wide seats, heaps of legroom and 2 course meals.
We had been dreading LAX as we have often had issues at immigration, but they are ow finally up to the play with epassorts and anyone on the ESTA system that has travelled to the US before can go through a kiosk. Consequently it's the fastest we have ever been through customs and we didn't even go through security on the way out!
On arrival on at our super cliche (super 8) accommodation for the night we dumped our bags and headed to the local bus depot. We hopped on one of the local buses to Venice Beach for the afternoon.
I have to say is is much bigger than expected. The beach itself has to be at least 100m deep. The boardwalk is lined with alternative shops and bustling with skateboarers, rollerblades, cyclists, walkers and escooters. You have to have your wits about you as those escooters can get up some serious speed!
The area itself has so much happening, there is the skate park on the beach front, beach volleyball courts, basketball courts, buskers galore (including someone playing the grand piano on the beachfront), mini tent city, helicopters flying overhead and the pungent smell of pot fills the air everywhere you go!
After making our way toward Santa Monica along the boardwalk we explored Pacific Park which is the amusement park on the Santa Monica Pier. It was pretty packed and I have to say the buskers were less than average...most of them couldn't sing and they were quite bizarre!
We jumped on the ferris wheel for a good aerial view of the beach which really allows you to take in the size of it.
We managed to catch the sign that marks the end of Route 66 on the pier and then made our way into town for a much needed drink!
Dinner was simple...seafood takeaways. We can only liken it to a McDonald's for seafood, but it did the trick. By this time we were too exhausted to care. After an Uber incident (we missed our first one) we made it back to the motel for some winks ahead of our roadtrip to Vegas.
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