Way out west...

I got up last Tuesday morning at 3:30 ayem to get to the airport on time for my flight to Vegas. I met Pebs at the Denver airport and we boarded the flight for Vegas. Luca met us there and we loaded up the car a moved towards Beverly, Hills that is...


Bok had suggested this place to stay and although it wasn't glamorous, it was enough and it was cheap and close to everything Hollywood.


We walked Hollywood Boulevard and then made our way to West Hollywood where we met Bok at the Abbey, a very Weho bar and a really fantastic place. This place has all these different rooms and courtyard areas and hundreds of candles everywhere; it's really very lush and the martinis are perfectly executed; worth every bit of what they cost.

We got in touch with J2 and he stopped by; wonderful to meet him! He's a good man and I wish that we had had more time... (This was a six day road trip and we covered a lot of ground).

After that, Bok took us here and there and we met some resident South Africans, stopped by a large gay resort type place, had a late meal and an even later round of drinks in another very gay weho bar.

After a few hours of sleep, we all got up and headed out; Bok off to his days business and the three of us off to sight-see, beginning in the park above Hollywood.

We drove back down the hill, had breakfast, and drove to the Getty; passing Hollywood High and thousands of zillion dollar homes on the way.


The Getty is stunning! If there were no works of art there, it would still be amazing; the setting high on it's own hill is dramatic, the buildings are beautiful and the gardens are masterpieces. No expense was spared anywhere; the amount of money spent on this complex is astonishing! The Travertine marble used throughout the complex comes from the same quarry that supplied the stone for the Colliseum in Rome. The view from the hill is breath taking, perhaps literally, as you can also see that layer of smog over downtown L.A.



After the Getty, we met the delish Mikey Salad for lunch! Another case of too little time, but a very good lunch it was!

We made our way down to the beach at Santa Monica. I hadn't been there in many years; it's an incredible expanse of sand and shore. (It brought back memories of my first time there when I was nineteen, very lost and very much in love with the wrong person, but that's another story..)

We walked along the shore sending our good vibes to Noah as we went. We also had a talk on the phone with Alex as we splashed along.

Then we headed up the coast on Highway One as the sun began to set.


More about the trip up the coast in the next entry...


What a trip this was!


durlx