- One of the most popular restaurants in LA is a hot dog stand called Pinks. It has lineups that stretches around the store even at 2:00 in the morning.
- Madonna's home in Beverley Hills is up for sale. It went up for sale the day after her brother, who was the principal resident, published a tell all book about his sister.
- The owner of Ralph's, which is the owner of one of the largest grocery chains in California, is the neighbour to Tom Cruise. He has stated that if the Republicans are re-elected as president he will pack up and move his billions to Canada.
- We saw an actual police take down of a shop lifter in the Kodak theater shopping complex. One of the cops, who is the size of of Darren, had his knee of the thief's head as they were handcuffing him. Needless to say the crook offered little resistance.
- The jail in Beverley Hills has a parking space of limos and the prisoners have perks that you would expect in a high class hotel
- Elvis Presley's favorite restaurant was Carney's, which is a burger joint on Sunset Blvd that is housed in an old street car.
- If you want good pizza, go to Micelis off Hollywood Blvd. Marg says it is the best she has ever tasted.
Today we traveled from LA to Phoenix. The geography was pretty boring. It was flat desert with small rocky mountains on each side of the I10. We passed Palm Springs in the desert but you couldn't see it from the highway because of the sound barriers. In that area it has some major windmill farms for generating electric power. At one point Marg estimated that there was at least 100 windmills in a field.
We also passed Yuka Flats. This was an area where they tested atomic bombs underground in the 50s. I was reminded of some parties we had with the people from work in the late 70s, where a colleague named Ken Ikle mixed up a punch called Yuka Flats that was very potent.
Tomorrow we are on our way to El Paso.
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