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Tuesday 10thJuly
Well we really are down to the last few days. Yesterday we travelled out of the heat back to Los Angeles base for the electrics and aircon to be sorted. A lovely little run via interstates 15, 91 and 5 oh such fun again on some sections two lanes for fast traffic with two or more people in the car- no one in those lanes rest of the interstate solid with single person traffic.
We are now camped at Anaheim Resort Rv Park within a couple of hundred yards of Disneyland, I think the original version. Now John in particular will appreciate this our van is separated from interstate 5 by a nine foot high wall and 50 yards of ground. A quite spot, actually the site is bright and clean, the traffic noise constant day and night.
We had a firework display courtesy of Disney at 9.30, it lasted 15 minutes. I've seen fireworks like it on TV but never in the flesh so to speak, spectacular describes it .
Its quite good, the fireworks drown out the road noise and even the aircon so really one is getting a symphony of noise or maybe a cacophony would be a better word.
We chose the site to enable us to get to the centre of LA, when we asked how to get there at reception the reply was 'what on earth do you want to go there for, Hollywood and Universal studios are the places to go' an over exaggeration perhaps but I think there is in fact no proper centre. Looking up, with difficulty, metro times we found there was a metro at 9.20 one at 12 and one at 3, lousy service every one is on the roads, chicken or egg situation. The people at reception were amazed that we would think of going in by train, no we have never done that and virtually never go in anyway.
Scrap that one then.
We drove off instead to see Queen Mary, ship, at Long Beach but got waylayed en route.
We went and stopped at Huntinton Beach more by luck than judgement and now I have to give credit to the Beech Boys if they were singing about this area. It was wide open with huge beaches stretching along the coast as far as you could see, shore development was restrained, nothing tacky anywhere as has been the case with all other seashores visited. In fact with the huge beaches with lawns behind and trees, hedges the whole effect was rather refined. The beaches had lots of people on them but did not seem overcrowded, volley ball and surfing was the main occupation after sunbathing. I do not comment on the Beach Boys 'California Girls'.
On one section of a beach they were setting up a surfing village, literally a village for the American surfing Championships to be held over 9 days at the end of July. 800,000 visitors are expected.
Thought of rounding off with thoughts from America but connections so annoying having spent over two hours trying to get this blog off I have given up, bit like that with America or this area, been there done that I will not be back. Not fair I know but that is life! I'm getting or have got intolerent and grumpy.
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