10 hours in LA

The holiday begins!! We have made the most of our brief stopover in Los Angeles. We arrived at 11am and were let into the USA despite some confusion at the border as to Fletch's occupation (a solicitor in America is not an attorney, but rather the guy that goes door to door selling steaknives).

As we couldn't check into our 10.30pm flight to Guatemala until 4pm, we grabbed a taxi and headed to the beach for some fresh sea air and to stretch our economy class legs. 

We spent the next 5 hours meandering from Santa Monica Pier to Venice Beach, enjoying the beautiful LA winter sun and giving our shoulders and backs a decent introduction to carrying our packs. Along Venice Beach we dodged rollerbladers, hemp-toting hippies and buskers with varying degrees of talent before settling in for our first (and thankfully our only) oversized American meal of onion rings, nachos and hamburgers. Even the seagulls are oversized!

We kept Fletch's occupation on the quiet...

 

Just waiting for our flight to Guatemala, and then the Latin adventure begins.