The hotel looks like an origin story. Small town girl goes out to LA to "make it" in the city. She chooses a hotel that is clean, inexpensive, close to everything, and ends up at the Dunes Inn Sunset. Two storeys that face a parking lot, palm trees with Christmas lights. The interiors of the rooms have not been updated since 1976. The beds are mostly comfortable however.
We set off early in the morning and it is overcast. We don't have a lot of time in LA (get used to this being a running theme) so we're looking to optimize it. We made our way up to Griffin Observatory, which is really cool. We walked around and got some neat pictures.
It is not a surprise to anyone to learn that I am a big nerd.
As we were walking around the Observatory, I noticed brass marks on the ground. They've marked out the paths of orbit for all of the planets.
The clouds finally cleared enough for us to get a look at the Hollywood sign.
Yay!
We are off to the Walk of Fame now. The Walk of Fame is four miles long so we don't have time to cover it all.
On the way there, I accomplish a life goal: I spotted a Toynbee Tile!
Toynbee Tiles are messages of unknown origin found embedded in asphalt of streets in about two dozen major cities in the United States and four South American cities. Since reading about them, I've wanted to find one. Now I have!
Grauman's Chinese Theatre was pretty nifty. There were many, many stars to be found. I think this was a lot more special than the Walk of Fame stars.
Turns out, that in order to get a star on the Walk of Fame, you have to pay for it. It isn't merit based.
Next: this town ain't big enough for the both of us.
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