I have now been here a week, but I started to learn the streets as soon as I got off the freeway. Survival tactics: if I'm gonna get myself into the heart of this city, I better know how in the hell to get out. (I'm suddenly hearing Ani's "Shameless" in my head.)
Mariposa runs perpendicular to Wilshire. Wilshire runs runs parallel to 8th and James M Wood. So does Venice Blvd. Normandie, Vermont and Hoover can get me to Venice. They'll also take me to the 10. Either one can get me closer to Culver City and Danrae's house. I can't remember yet how to get to Kate's or Orange County.
If I turn right on Wilshire from S. Mariposa, there is a Home Depot, a Food4Less, a RiteAid and a Starbucks. There are also the skyscrapers I love to see so much. And in walking distance is the GayLord apartments which has Julia's favorite HMS Bounty at street level.
If I turn left, Emily and I can walk to CVS Pharmacy to drop off recycling at the center in parking lot and hopefully get a few dollars to put in our found blue-bear-with-yellow-tie piggy bank. If I'm driving, I can do the same, past grand churches and temples and the Wiltern before coming to Miracle Mile. And Miracle, as I found out yesterday, has the LACMA and the La Brea tar pits.
I'm thinking I've got a good location here. And maybe one day I'll know the streets of LA like my dad knows the streets of San Francisco. Maybe one day I'll turn on Venice on instinct instead of survival.
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1. Your location is amazing!
2. You will totally get to know it. And, maybe more importantly, you'll understand the freeways and how they connect and where, and how to find them (they're these elusive enigmatic things that just get into your bones when you live down here).
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