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Category: Travel and Places
So I recenetly learned that clark walabees are not a dress shoe....but .are considered a non sneaker...Let's start with that thought..and as appealing as it sounds you can not live on steak tacos from street vendors...eventually you have permanant taco breath..and you'll keep yourself up at night knowing your breath 'is' that bad.. now back to the business at hand. I just got back from LA for a stint...on two one way tickets. Both baught on a shoe string and an impulse..Damn this pride of mine... This will more than likely be a readers digest for what not to do...but do it anyways... when you go to LA.
First off ..you should have no where to live..and pack light. I nailed this one...although I did bring my beloved irreplaceable guitar...Even on the bus through south central.....I needed atleast one friend on that bus. After a few days I settled at a no tell motel in koreatown...cash only...and do not try to humor the desk clerk..he will not laugh...not with you...or at you...
I believe my room had the most comfortable grotesque bed in LA....equiped with many a ring stains on the plywood nightstand so I'd know where to keep my 40. Also it had a tv set...back from when they were referred to as a tv set. I think if I was not married..I more than likely would have became a permanant fixture to that motel room....like a cliche' country song...I would have gave it a new paint job and picture on the wall. Maybe even had yearly potlucks with the other unfortunate souls who had ended up there.
Echo Park..would have to be the place to land..if you could be so fortunate..although I moved out of the motel and into an apartment only two blocks away..where the shallow closet coffined my body at night...that was a close second. Being in ktown was a perfect place to have as homebase...it gave me somewhere to leave..and get back to...and somewhere I could have tacos 3 times a day..
My first few nights..i spent wandering the streets by foot and subway,and buses..all around downtown,chinatown,silver lake, echo park, hollywood...even to beverly hills. I would consider that to be my first mistake...although like i said at the beginning i'd do it the same. Point being that i created a few monsters on my feet (blisters) that would ultimately follow me back to minneapolis to the doc. Again..damn this pride of mine. Thinking I could weather the signs of these blisters I continued my wandering...which eventually had me walking like a crack a lacker...who was really tired. Which also is a familiar style of walking to street bums and penguins if they could survive southern california heat. On totally random note..i saw a laptop on top of a corner garbage in beverly hills. and found myself inspecting it..that may have shocked me thinking back on that later that night...I will continue this rehashment later..need to work
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