LA

4 hours and i arrived in Papeete at 8:15pm local time and it was 27 degrees Celcius and humid (photo of Papeete departure area). Plane was running about 45 min late. On the trip to Papeete i was seated next to a guy from Palmy who was working with Polyestyrene panelling and working on the new hopkirk building at massey. The trip from Papeete to LA was more full but i was seated by myself. Immigration in LA was interesting, they take your photo and also your fingerprints from both index fingers, so i'm now on their records. First piece of advice, carry some smaller notes with you, the smallest i had was a $50 and the machine for my train ticket only took $20's and smaller, so i bought my first hot dog. The only way to purchase tickets for trains within town is by machine. The trip to downtown LA gave my a view of several different neighbourhoods, and i got to see someone cleaning a playground using a metal detector over the sand. The interesting building you can see is the disney music hall, i guess i can't complain about the hopkirk building being ugly.

Took a day and went down to Santa Monica beach and walked down to Venice beach. Saw the lifeguard trucks but no sign of the Hoff or Pamela anywhere.