Looking Back - 4/18/2022 Cerro Alto Campground CA to Los Angeles CA

Cerro Alto Campground, CA 

The Drive into LA for our Month Long Stay

Always try to open with a photo

Today we pack up and say goodbye to camping for a month.  We will be back to camping after LA, but for the next 30 days we will be in an LA Airbnb and I am looking forward to it.  We made coffee and had breakfast and then took our time packing up.  Check in time is 4pm and the drive is 3.5 hours so leaving at noon will give us plenty of time.  

It wasn't as warm as we would have liked

Cerro Alto will be in our rear view mirror soon

We ended up packing up earlier than we wanted because we are so darned efficient so we decided to really take our time.  We headed back up to US101 and made stops at a few rest stops and took time out for lunch.

Our route

The drive was easy and we didn't really hit any traffic until LA.  Even with trying to delay, we ended up 30 minutes early so we parked at Echo Park and waited.  Echo park has a big fence around it right now because they just recently cleared out a big homeless encampment and are trying to keep it clear.  We weren't sure how to get in so we just sat in the car and listened to public radio.

When our time was up we did the 5 minute drive to our Airbnb.  We checked in with the owner and carefully pulled the van into the tight spot that was provided.  Unpacking was fast because we were parked right outside the front door.  We spent an hour or so arranging things and trying to unpack the bins. I ran out of energy so I walked to El Pollo Loco (one of our guilty pleasures) and picked up chicken and brought it back.  Dinner was chicken and a beer.  

The Squeeze was on

Francis making himself at home

The guilty pleasure

The meal!

Me and my computer in our Airbnb

That's it for our looking back series until the next road trip!  Now back to your probably daily timely updates!

Getting Settled In L.A.

 Los Angeles, CA

Home Base Los Angeles

It's Tuesday and we are getting settled in our L.A. Airbnb.  We arrived yesterday evening and we will be here for 30 days.  If you didn't know, sometimes you can get steep nightly discounts by staying 30 days or more, usually hundreds of dollars off just by going from less than 30 days to 30 days+.  We backed our van into a spot that was just barely big enough but we fit so that is the important part.

It was a tight squeeze but we are in!

We unloaded the entire van and there is room for everything.  There is even room for our bins to be packed away out of the way.  The listing title has the word Bungalow in it so we assumed it was going to be a lot smaller than it is.  It has a really comfy couch and a TV with free Netflix (Great British Baking Show!) and Showtime (Dexter!)

Last night we had a guilty pleasure.  Sure, we are surrounded by incredible eating establishments, but sometimes you just want something you haven't had in years.

A really bad photo of our guilty pleasure.  
I didn't take my time because who takes a photo of El Pollo Loco?

This morning I am making a checklist of all of the things we want to do while we are here.  30 days doesn't seem like a lot of time when you look at our list.  We also want to get together with quite a few friends but most of them are only available on weekends so our weekends are almost completely booked already.  I am pretty sure we will be back next year and we might even stay at this Airbnb.  

 The Great US Road Trip 

I will post about our drives and camping from Kirkland to L.A. over the next few days.  

Want to learn how we got to LA and what we have been doing the past few weeks?  Read about them all;

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