Monday, June 29, 2026

Hotel California

Posted 5:30 AM by Gerald So

Classic Pontiac Firebird in a Los Angeles parking lot
Photo by Ritesh Singh from Pexels
My brother and I flew to Los Angeles last Thursday for our cousin's wedding Friday and back to New York yesterday.

I would've liked more time to see the city, not just the bit by our hotel in Buena Park. Thanks to another cousin, dinners for forty-two at two Vietnamese restaurants did come together in a flash.

Our travel on JetBlue was smooth. Packing light, I didn't bring a change of shoes; however, my decades-old nobuck Rockport World Tour Classics held up to sitting in a plane for five, six hours, walking Downtown Disney, and the wedding's unique dress code.

It also helped that I adapted my exercise routine to five rounds of five pushups against the hotel room sink, five air squats, and fifteen swings as if my hands were holding a kettlebell. I don't think my brother heard or saw at all.

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