Venice beach

We arrived back in LA after 8 hours on our beloved megabus and then took the local bus for an hour and 20 minutes to Venice beach.

Our hostel is pretty much on the beach and right in front of the skate park, it's perfect! It's our first mixed dorm and as soon as we got in our room we saw about 3 skateboards so Kerri was stoked. Our roommates this time include: two Brazilian guys who are always stoned and never socialize with anyone, an aussie guy who had just finished an epic 9 month round the world trip and two French guys.The French guys are cray. We arrived with loads of booze and cracked straight on it and they told us so many crazy stories.... They spent the night in central park sleeping rough, they bought an old FBI car and crashed it on route 66 and one of them slept on the streets with a homeless guy one night and got offered crack. We went to a bar and they almost got kicked out for eating the cherries used for cocktails but managed to talk their way out. We went back to the hostel, I found a dinosaur hat and they produced a massive tin of FREEZE DRIED macaroni cheese which they'd stolen from another hostel. They poured it all over the hostel kitchen and while we were cleaning it up Kerri got us a snack from the vending machine and produced some sort of atomic aniseed chewy fireball sweets which she thought were nuts. We hadn't had any dinner so were starving so we had to eat them and they were SO INTENSE and chewy and tasted like sambuca and then we went to our room and the aussie was telling stories about how he drank such and such and then vommidid everyweeea and kept saying vommidid so much and I kept repeating it in my head. Then one of the Frenchys did a wee in the sink and everyone was like "err, not cool man".

In the day times we just walked up and down the boardwalk, one time we saw a BEARDED LADY which I couldn't believe. Like a full beard. Then we saw half a man. The top half. Just a head, tshirt, street. We couldn't work him out. It looked like he was coming out of a drain and only half of him was out but there was no drain. We later saw that there was a local freakshow so they're obviously part of it and we decided not to go in because it would be too much.

We hired skateboards and skated up the boardwalk, got a pitcher of beer, drank that and then skating got easier. Kerri did a load of tricks pissed then we went to the skatepark and watched the absolutely fearless skaters relentlessly trying to land and perfect the sickest tricks.

Today we had hangovers because we drank loaaads last night, met two women from Portugal on a surf and skate trip, a super geek from Austria and then we all went out to a burlesque show where a lady had a washing line around her boobs with pegs on it.

There's loads of people working out here and also loads of homeless people that choose to live on the beach. Shorts and tshirt weather in the day but freezing at night. The sunset over the sea is beautiful and the haze after the sun has set is cool too with the palm trees and city behind.

Chronic weed eveywhere. "Green doctors" which advertise saying they can write you a prescription for a small price and then you get a licence to legally smoke weed. I can't believe Arnie is mayor here! California is just a jokers state! Everyones crazy!

Found the coolest food place ever, called poke poke, the surfers sashimi and that was incredible. All our food here has been amazing, the other day I had a "muscle beach scramble" for breakfast.
Then we saw a sign saying alligator jerky, went in and was given a sample of frozen popcorn!



Hostel life is so fun. sharing with boys stinks tho and at night its a cacophony of snores....resulting in five ear plugs in each ear and a nose peg. Next we have an actual hotel....

Bring on Vegas!