I will preface this post by saying that Mica and I have wildly different opinions of southern California. I once spent a summer in Pasadena, and I think Mica’s experience is limited to a family reunion in San Diego and watching my brother graduate from Harvey Mudd.
Mica stops to smell the roses in SoCal!
So basically, neither of us knows anything about what SoCal is actually like. That said, Mica is terrified of southern California because everybody is beautiful, there’s lots of traffic and smog, and they have earthquakes [Mica: Also, mudslides and wild fires]. I think southern California is pretty much the greatest place ever because the weather is nice all the time (except when they go into deep freezes and it gets down into the 40s), they have ocean and mountains right next to each other, and everybody is beautiful. Nowhere are all of these things more true than in Los Angeles.
Harrison & a stubby palm tree
You may have noticed on our previous “Tentative Tour Dates” post that Los Angeles was listed as an unconfirmed destination. That’s code for, “we would like to go there, but we have no couch on which to surf.”
Fortunately, through the miracle of the internet, we were able to connect with somebody who in fact does have a couch (The couch, at this point, is a metaphor; we will actually sleep in a real life bed) on which we can surf. Not only that, but the proverbial couch is in Hollywood Hills! Major thanks to our friend Catherine for hunting down LA’s most fabulous airbnb listings!
I didn’t even know Hollywood Hills was the name of an actual place, but it is, and how can it not be full of richy rich people/houses/trees/dogs/trash cans?! We’re less than a mile from Mulholland Drive! I don’t really know the significance of that, but they made a movie about it! It has to be awesome, right?! [Mica: Yes, because all things that have been made into movies are awesome. Twilight franchise, I’m looking at you!]
As you can see, I am excited. After our stay, I reckon we will leave LA via Sunset Blvd. and Rodeo Drive, just in case I haven’t OD’d on chihuahuas and Ferraris yet. If you have any recommendations in or around the Hollywood Hills area, please let us know!
Bonus: If you made it this far, here’s a song that is vaguely about California and is a throwback to our first year of dating. Awwwwww.
Wedding Victory Tour 
LA also has the best Korean food in the country! Also Chinese and Japanese food as well. The Ethiopian, Lebanese, Armenian and Persian restaurants are something that one should consider looking at too.
I cannot fathom eating all this in the 24 hours that we are in LA, but we will try!
IT’S SO BEAUTIFUL MICA YOU WILL COME AROUND. Mulholland is awesome, Sunset is awesome, the Hills, oh my goddddd. You guysssss. I mean, it’s also weird, but I really can’t wait to hear what you guys think!!
Stephanie and I bought a table on Hollywood hills! It’s really hilly, and we listened to free fallin by Tom petty as we drove by Ventura and mulholland. It’s a real interesting place. Wish we had the time to see more of it when we drove down there
This sounds like my personal hell: Tom Petty & southern California.
airbnb is awesome! I stayed in two places when I went to Europe and the peeps were great!