Papa November

I spent half of last week in LA. I stayed at the Standard Hotel Downtown and loved it. Their soap smells like celery and KTLA did the morning show from the rooftop patio.
It was strange for me to be a visitor in LA, having grown up there. I didn't remember it being so filthy. Like a third world country only dirtier. And the traffic wasn't much fun. But, I love it. I love the architecure, I love the food, I love all of the different cultures rubbing up against each other, and I love the orange trees (no real groves left, but trees in yards and lining streets).
I was there on business and had almost no free time, but at night I wandered around downtown and saw the new Our Lady of Angels cathedral, the MOCA, and new Disney Concert Hall by Frank Gehry. Downtown isn't just for winos anymore!
When I left LA it was 70 degrees. When I arrived in Denver it was 4 degrees and there were no orange trees.