U.S citizens with documents
U.S citizens without documents
What about Mexicans let alone any other nationality so I hit the queue and waited an hour before I got to the end and was spoken to like I was as stupid as a cats ass even though he had the IQ of a golf ball and that might be even be unfair to the golf ball.
“Is this your first time in the US”
"Yes" (although still thinking I am actually on Mexican soil at the moment)
“What airport did you fly into in the US”?
Now you can see the problem here, I cannot fully tell you how baffled I was but this went on with more stupid questions until he shouted at me telling to go to some room to get some form. I was very close to telling this stupid prick where to go but realised that he was not worth the breath and I would likely be locked up under the terrorist act Cuba is a place I would like to see maybe not Guantanamo Bay and orange is not my colour. Luckily a few of the other people I encountered helped me get the stamp I needed and were not clinically retarded and finally after 2.5 hours I got across the border and was in San Diego which was basically a lucky Mexico.
America I don’t think would be as good as it has been unless I knew someone or had a lot of money to drop so knowing Brian has completely made my trip here. His friends claim he is ‘The King of San Diego’ and seeing how many people he knows I am starting to think they are right. You may recall that I met Brian in Colombia on the Lost City trek along with Mike from LA.
I got here a few days earlier than expected because it was ‘opening day’, to most Britons this would mean nothing but to every American this is the first home baseball game of the season and it was banging downtown once the San Diego Padres won! I love San Diego with my accent getting quite a lot of attention from the women; I could seriously see myself living here! Brian took me to many a rooftop bars and some place called the strip bar, no this was just a place where you can cook your own steak not where you look at some meat jive a pole.
One thing that has made me laugh is the TV out here, having watched this show where an overweight American eats his way through America and an early heart coronary when he has to do challenges like eat the hottest chilli wings in the world it does not take long for the audience to get behind him with chants. U.S.A, U.S.A, U.S.A. Like in Briton it takes only a slight rise in the higher education fees to start the posh rioting I would only have to shout the letter U to start the chant! It is easy to see why the America is the most obese country in the world everywhere there are fast food joints, you can not cruise the freeway without seeing tall looming signs advertising all manor of fast food joints.
The UK has two major fast food burger outlets McDonalds and Burger King but here they have dozens then dozens of fast food Mexican food. My favourites are Del Taco, In and Out Burgers and Tommy Burgers. One tip: When ordering through a drive through always complains that they haven’t given you all the order, they will give you it and it’s likely that they had forgotten something!
The weather here has been pretty average making it seem more like England than California but when the sun did show its face we would make use of it. Frisbee golf is exactly what it says on the tin but I was not prepared for what I saw. People took this way too seriously having driver, mid-range and putting Frisbees in their pro bags around their waist, I am surprised that people didn’t take caddies or role around in golf buggies. People even shouted “FOUR” when a Frisbee throw went pear shaped.
From San Diego we drove up the coast to Los Angeles where we met Mike and went out to his bar where he served us free drinks all night! Before this Brian got us VIP tickets to go and see the Jay Leno show being filmed so potentially I am on TV! It is filmed live delayed so it does not take 4 hours like a normal sitcom would take and Jay Leno doesn’t take himself too seriously. If you do not know who Jay Leno is he is the Tonight Show host who is famous for his massive collection of cars in his aircraft hangers in Burbank. The show I saw had David Arquette as the guest and Far Eastern Movement performing. It was funny to see the security at his show searching people’s phones and cameras if they thought you had taken pictures, it was as if we had walked into the CIA head quarters in Langley.
LA is exactly how I imagined it beautiful people all fake and serious. There is not much to see to the tourist so once we had seen the ‘Hollywood’ sign and the Chinese theatre we pretty much hit it all. LA was the worst of all the Californian cities I visited, its not commuter friendly there is traffic everywhere and the public transport is worse than some of the third world countries I had been to.
After LA we went down to Long beach which is the home to Snoop Dogg where we hung out with some of his friends and we got VIP tickets to the Chivas soccer game. Chivas share the same ground as LA Galaxy (Home Depot Stadium) and we got to watch the game in an exec box the one next to David Beckhams. One good thing about hte stadium is that you can walk all the way around and intergrate with fans of the opposing team.
Next time hear about Vegas and the rest of California.
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