Near the end of my 90 days in the US, I decided that I still wanted to see some more of the US. Los Angeles seemed like an obvious choice, as I didn’t feel like renting a car by myself and flights from San Francisco were cheap and short. To be honest, LA does not really deserve its own blog post. It just didn’t quite fit in with any of my other blog posts about the US. Plus, it is the only other place I have worked from remotely, next to SF. Hence – my digital nomad stop #9.

I had booked myself a central hotel, just around the corner of the Walk of Fame. I had 3.5 days in LA, which would have been way too much time – but given that I travelled during the week and had to work part-time, it was just right. LA has some busses and metros, but when I started looking at where the actual sights are located, I realized that it would be very time-consuming to travel around on public transport. So, for the first time in a very long time, I booked a hop-on hop-off bus tour ticket. I found a deal and went for the maximum version that included all 3 different routes, going all the way to Santa Monica and Venice Beach, around Hollywood and Beverly Hills and into the center of LA.

During the next 3 days, I did all of these routes and they actually weren’t too bad with the audio commentary. The sights themselves though were kind of underwhelming. The city is very spread out, there are odd empty/industrial areas between places, lots of homeless everywhere and the weather at Venice Beach and Santa Monica was just as grey and foggy as in San Francisco. Some places that I did enjoy were: Santa Monica Pier, the skate park at Venice Beach and the modern architecture around the Disney Center in the center of the city.

My definite highlight of LA was a hike I did in the Hollywood Hills to the Hollywood sign on my last day. Shows again how I’m just not a city person anymore, but will be happy as soon as you put me into any kind of nature. The hike wasn’t even that spectacular and unfortunately views were not clear that day, but it was nice enough and good to get away from all the people and traffic.

I had very low expectations for LA, and in a way, these low expectations were met. Been there, done that. Here are some more photos.