I’m sitting at Terminal 6 of LAX waiting for my flight. My sister and I are wrapping up our weekend trip to Los Angeles and we are both pretty tired and ready to enjoy the comforts of home.
It was one of those whirlwind trips where you don’t get much time to think about what had happened earlier in the day, let alone write a blog entry. That said, I’ve got some time while sitting here — here are some highlights from the trip:
Virgin America: The hype was well-deserved as flying with this low-cost carrier was a great experience flying over to LA from Dulles. The price of our tickets were also very competitive, as we used the Digg buy-one get-one offer to get two tickets for $360. Purple mood-lighting is a nice touch.
Enterprise Rent-a-Car: Again, we saved a lot of money with the rental on this trip, using a travelzoo deal that gave us a full-size car for $9.50 a day. Other than that though, we got a Pontiac G6 (another clunky American car) that was the base model and didn’t really impress me as I was last year when I rented cars from Budget (more clunky American cars). So much so that I forgot to take a reasonable photo of the car we’ve been driving around in for the last four days.
Lunar New Year in Los Angeles: They definitely do a big celebration here in LA compared to DC or Baltimore, though I’m sure NYC does a lot too. Lots of lion dances and traditional stuff that I usually miss out on.
LA Roads & Traffic: Not bad. With its grid street system and my Google Maps Mobile, we found most of our destinations without getting too lost. However, old deteriorating highways, high volume of traffic at all hours, and at least one example of the “Dallas Merge” — when two highways merge together with a lane from each of the highways merge into one without an auxiliary lane — made things interesting.
Flight’s boarding. More later.
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1 tiffany ^-^ // Mar 2, 2008 at 11:21 pm
hi tony! nice picture of the lion =P
luv the videos about the car