Legs and Borders

The last stop on my American adventure, it was also the first stop when I arrived to US four and a half months ago. I remember LA did not made a great first impression on me, it was in fact a major culture shock. It felt very different this time around though. First of all I contacted Rigel (trail name Rifle) few days ago asking if I could spend two nights at his place before the departure and he said yes. I met him three months ago during a trail magic he was hosting around RV resort close to LA, we got talking and he gave me his email address saying that if I would need a place to crash before going back to Europe I should let him know. And so I did, not having much faith that he will reply to my email but voila, he did and he was very positive about it. I arrived at his place yesterday in the afternoon later than expected as the morning Flix bus from Santa Barbara got cancelled and I had to book another one. Rifle's house was situated in North Hollywood ten minutes away from the...

Today was a long and busy day. I started off early about 7am, had a quick coffee in the hostel, I couldn't find sugar so I've asked a cleaner Sonya who happened to be there, she gave me a container which I used but while drinking it turned out she gave me salt :) I had a black, unsweetened coffee instead. I set my GPS to take me into Hollywood Forever Funeral Home, Cemetery and Crematorium, to find a grave of Mel Blanc and tick seeing it of my nucke list. The road lead me through some of the poshest and expensive neighbourhood I've seen in LA so far, and so the city revealed to me it's yet another face. After about an hour of walking I've finally reached the destination and I've managed to find Mel's grave along with.. Burt Reynolds one ( there's way more oldschool celebrities buried here but I didn't bother looking for them, maybe next time). Then since I had couple ...