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Last day in the US for this year :-(
After breakfast we packed the car up and headed for a shopping centre to buy another suitcase. We ended up with a samsonite soft side for $99 from Ross's, a sort of down market trade secret.
Then it was south to the hotel we booked for today. We checked in and a massive re-pack ensued as what we had left for the last suitcase was overweight lol finally all organised we had some lunch, finishing up the last of the food.
We set off towards Venice Beach to hire segways for a couple of hours on the walkways near the beaches but time, traffic and a lack of parks conspired to make us abandon that idea for another year.
Deciding to check out the pier at Santa Monica again we began a twenty minute search for a park and that was once we'd paid our money at the gate to the car park! The pier was far busier than when we were last here, early Aug last year on a weekday. Lots of people and quite a few cops, some police cars were driving on the sand, others were parked either end of the pier. The one at the ocean end of the pier had a surf board on its roof rack :-) We walked the pier, checked it all out, collected the car and headed up the coast a bit to Malibu, turned around and headed back to the hotel.
Traffic was pretty heavy again but not too bad.
Back at the hotel we showered and changed - worth the price of the hotel to be able to do that :-). Checked out, grabbed some dinner at the nearby Hawaiian BBQ joint, filled up the rental and returned it. All went smoothly til we got to LAX on the rental shuttle to find they'd changed our plane from an Airbus to a 747. If we'd wanted to fly on a 747 we would've flown direct for less travelling time. Cos we bought partially using points they'd not consider any form of compensation for us having paid more and been inconvenienced for zero gain to us. Not happy :-(
Ah well, we will be on our way very soon...........
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