7 October
2014
We checked
out of the Paris Las Vegas Hotel and head to Los Angeles, stopping at Whiskey
Pete’s Hotel & Casino for fuel and the morning hot drinks of cappuccino and
hot chocolate. We noticed that across the road is a theme park at Buffalo
Bill’s Hotel & Casino, unfortunately we did not have any time to check it
out.
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| On the road from Las Vegas to Los Angeles |
I took
over the driving from this point, which is a big deal for me. I hardly
ever drive because I don’t like driving where I don’t know the roads.
Well I safely got us to within one hours drive of Los Angeles and was glad
Justin took over. I was freaking out as the traffic got heavier and
worried I would not be in the right lanes. You really do need to be a
confident and good driver in places like Phoenix, Los Angeles and San Francisco.
We found it strange as suddenly there was no traffic going the opposite
direction to us. Then we saw a couple of motorcycle cops, a white hearse
and several black vehicles followed by about 50 motorcycle cops. It was
for a funeral of a motorcycle cop killed in the line of duty.
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| Los Angeles in sight |
We
arrived at La Brea Tar Pits and Museum about 2:30 pm which gave us enough time
to visit the museum to see the skeletons and recreations of the animals whose
bones have been found in the pits on site. These animals included short
faced bears, giant ground sloths, mastodons, ancient camels, saber tooth tigers
and more. We took
the 3:30 pm tour of the grounds learning about how the bones got stuck in the
asphalt and how they are excavating for small bones, seeds, shells and insects.
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| Skeletons of birds found at the La Brea Tar Pits |
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| Example of how Mastodon bones came to be in the La Brea Tar Pits |
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| George C. Page Musuem, La Brea Discoveries |
Once the tour finished we drove to
the Holiday Inn Express & Suite Los Angeles Downtown West. The accommodation was good but the
internet was not capable to handle the number of guests and everyone was
complaining they had no internet. There
is very little around for restaurants so plan to drive for a meal. We walked to a shopping centre some distance
away and had Indian for dinner. A local
recommended we get a taxi back to our hotel, which we did.
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| Our room at the Holiday Inn Express & Suite Los Angeles Downtown West |
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