Thoughts from LA trip

 Some random thoughts from our trip to Los Angles that do not include food.
 I forget how beautiful the Iowa is from the air in the summer time.

Was not aware how barren it was between the Rockies and California.

Have always heard about the weather in that area how is basically stays the same all of the time, being from Iowa I found that hard to believe. But everyday was mid to upper 70’s.

Was never once bothered by a bug of any kind. People must have migrated to sunny California and all of the bugs to Iowa.

Realized that there are more miles of fence and barbed wire in L.A. than the entire state of Iowa.

I saw what would have probably been a priest signing autographs as people were leaving a Beverley Hills church service. That was kind of weird.

On Sunday we started out in downtown L.A., went to Hollywood and ended up in Beverley Hills saw every kind of person imaginable. I heard more different kinds of languages in 5 days than I have heard in my life time’s 5.

The entire L.A. area is all about the car. When in Iowa if you see a corvette you go wow look at that. There a corvette does not get a second look. Audi’s, Mercedes Benz’s and BWM’s were as common there as Toyota’s, Ford’s and Chevy’s here. Then there were the Porches, Ferrari’s, Bentley’s, Rolls Royce’s, Lamborghini's. Notice I made all of these plural, because we saw more than one of each. Then there was this car.

 A Maybach, I had never heard of one so I looked it up they are German made and list from $372,000 to $478,000, Wow! Didn't take a picture of it because I didn't know what it was.

 I was really looking forward to going to the beaches and seeing the Pacific Ocean. Once I got there I was so disappointed. But my daughter summed it up very well when she said that only knowing the beaches in the panhandle of Florida and the Gulf of Mexico, when compared to the beaches of southern California was like going from the Hilton to the Super 8.

 We made a trip to Venice Beach, just one of those places that I had always heard of and wanted to see. I expected to see some strange people, I was not disappointed. However, this was the one and only place that I felt uncomfortable. We walked downtown L.A. surrounded by homeless people, Rodeo drive, with all the rich people but it was a Venice Beach that for I think in the first time in my life I sensed evil.

Did I mention the weather? Has to be the only reason so many people move there.

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f there is another trip to California it will be Malibu and north. Made it to Malibu one day and wished we could have spent more time there and in the mountains. Much more scenic.

 Overall, the best part of the trip was being with my entire family. We always go into it knowing it could be the last time and cherish every minute of it.

 Lastly, I came away again amazed by the grace, mercy, the sovereignty of God and the beauty creation. And with the vast variety of people we saw from the guy digging a coffee cup out of a trash can and drinking it, to the guy driving the Maybach that could have cost him a half a million dollars. That in the end no matter who you are here on this earth we all end up in one of two places.