Cruising LA and aiming for the desert

Long before the world shifted and someone opened the door to Wonderland, we spent three days in California on our way to Mexico. We rented a car and we did LA according to a quite specific plan around shopping and food. The big difficulty with LA is that you need to go everywhere with a car. On the other hand, it is very easy to travel in California. So in a quiet neighbourhood, where we had rented a bungalow, we left the most heavy collection of luggage being very happy realising we would actually walk to a breakfast place a few blocks away.

We spent almost a whole day in Venice, walked the streets, watched the canals, had coffee and met up with friends for dinner. We were waiting for them on a restaurant, when we received a text; "Sorry, we are late, we just got married." So we had the privilege to celebrate their start of marriage together with them and that was a true gift in itself. The food was amazing and the hours just went by.

My husband had been wishing to see Joshua trees for quite a while, so we decided to go for some landscape sightseeing and drove out to the desert. I guess Joshua Tree National Park kept its promise and there were Joshua trees everywhere. We watched the scenery and tried to find the prettiest tree. And I think we succeeded. Deserts are strange and lonely environments and it seems unbelievable that anything is growing at all.

We left LA early in the morning and on our way to the airport we accidentally drove by the one and only Randy's donuts. Known from any movie about LA. We had time. We stopped. We had a donut breakfast. And then it was something about falling into a hole, meeting the white rabbit and the mad hatter, but that you already know everything about!