Western USA -- Day 5, LA to Vegas

[terrencechan]

Dan and I are in Las Vegas. He was annoyed that in all the hours we drove in California, not once did we manage to play "California Love" (Tupac/Dr. Dre) on my iPod.

We didn't end up leaving until this afternoon since I wasn't able to contact blakwngbrd last night. So we met up with Warren and saw the new BJJ movie "Redbelt". I can't really say it was

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[fich]

Cobra Kai?

Didn't Ralph Macchio kick their ass?

[songmonk]

We're cruising along at 80 mph or so with a decent amount of traffic

This is the part that does not compute for me for LA.

[testing4l]

I love LA freeway drivers. Traffic on the freeway in LA moves so much faster than similar amounts of traffic on the freeway in other cities. We're cruising along at 80 mph or so with a decent amount of traffic, and I'm just thinking that the equivalent amount of traffic in other big cities we'd be driving at least 30% slower. It's beautiful.

As a LA native, I can tell you that the fact that traffic elsewhere *doesn't* move that fast is the bane of my existence.

Another nice thing about LA -- people still drive that fast if it's raining and don't seem to have a higher percentage of accidents despite the inclement weather.

(and, yes, believe it or not, it does rain buckets in LA every so often)

[terrencechan]

I have my doubts. I've driven in LA when it started raining and was shocked at how drastically people slowed down.