Hong's L.A. Trip

Los Angeles, February 1996

[Pic. 1] Me, not quite sure what's going on.

After the dinner, we had a cup of coffee at the Bourbon Cafe in Menlo Park just because we didn't feel like going straight home and study. We sat outside (mostly because Jongyoon had to smoke a few cigarettes) and watched women go in and out of the cafe. And right there, we all decided to rent a car and go down to L.A. for the weekend.

[Pic. 2] With Byung-Hyun, at UCLA

On the first day in L.A., we did some tourist things. As it turned out, this was the smartest move we'd made. After that day, we barely got up before noon, and had no time nor energy to do other things.

[Pic. 3] With Jongyoon, at UCLA

And the campus was clean and beautiful. It wasn't like the image I had about L.A. There were actually a lot of big trees. That really looked great. We don't have that many large trees at Stanford. Jongyoon told us that the campus was located on a nice area in L.A., near the Beverley Hills, unlike a certain L.A. private university. :) All the time we were driving around the campus area, Jongyoon was continuously telling us about the shops and restaurants he used to go.

[Pic. 4] Santa Monica beach

We sat on the beach and saw the sun being swallowed by the dark green thing. I felt that I needed someone (not these two!) to watch this with. Well, what can I do?

[Pic. 5] With Byung-Hyun, at Santa Monica beach

That was the all the tourist thing we've done, and it was all done on the first day. For the rest of the days in L.A., all we did was to get up in the afternoon, eat Korean food (which was very important and most memorable), drink and dance.