Day 18:

Left: Santa Cruz at 5am
Arrived:Santa Monica, Los Angeles at 3:30pm
Distance: 418 miles

We got up at 5am to get Kev to the bus station on time, he's flying home from San Fransisco (via Boston) today. His plan was always tojust come across to the west coast... so it's just me and Simon now. We hit the road at about 5:30 for L.A., we kept drivin down the 101. It's another beautiful day so the pacific looked amazing as we drove down along it. We passed through Big Sur (two Thrills songsin one day..what a trip) at about 11am and kept drivin South towards LA. We got into LA at about pm and we headed to Santa Monica which is on the sea beside Beverly Hills and Hollywood to meet up withAlisa, a girl I met up in Boston. She's a friend of Joe, a guy we worked with in Weston. We hung around Santa Monica State Beachand the touristy area on the pier for a while then me up with Alisa. After a few hours there, we went to a party in Westwood, LAbeside UCLA. The people at teh party were incredibly sound (their party eh catalysts are slightly different from the Irish). After the party we cruised around LA in Alisa's boyfriend's black S.U.V. (quite the cliched car there but incredibly fun nevertheless) we crashed at Alisa's for the night then. PArtyin in LA was different from Ireland to say the least, it wascool all the same.






Nearly there...










One of the many photo's from the 101.
















An incredibly scary looking forest we encountered on the 17 mile drive, a scenic drive in Santa Cruz.












And we are presently...













The sun setting over Santa Monica beach.















The whole way into LA, every 2 or 3 miles there'd be skid marks leading straight into the barrier or pillars, it was slightly unnerving.
















Where the interstate splits on the way into LA.













Santa Monica Peir.














There was more popo in LA than anywhere I've ever seen.