For those of you who have followed our blog and trip to Alaska (rodneyandbrooke.blogspot.com), welcome to our new blog about our most recent urban adventure. After more than a year on the road, driving north of the Arctic circle, cooking on a camp stove next to our car, living out of plastic boxes, and living in a fantastic tent and many, many apartments, we have finally decided to take a job in LA and are beginning our transition to city life. If you had asked either of us five years ago if we would ever have lived in LA, I’m fairly certain the answer would have been a resounding, “I don’t think so.” But here we are, and we are surprisingly happy and excited about this new adventure.


This blog was inspired by the beginning of our house hunt and my adjustment to life in LA. Please feel free to follow along on our adventure to find our own place in LA.

Thursday, July 29, 2010

Freeway Flyin'


There is something they don’t tell you about LA.  Sure there is a lot of talk about traffic.  Terms like commute and reverse commute, the 210, the 405, metered merges, and the like are on the tips of everyone’s tongues.  But what they don’t tell you is that here in LA, you get to drive really fast—almost all the time.  Because there is freeway access everywhere and these are the main ways of getting around town, if there is no traffic, you are going 70 miles an hour for most of your driving.  Sure, there’s a lot of traffic, but there is quite a bit of speed too.  I like it. 
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