California.part two.mass transit woes

We get into LAX (The airport in L.A.) and we have to figure out what exactly we have to do to get to Beverly Hills.....We get shuttled to the bus station, and there we run into a guy who seems a bit odd, and later we figure out he is a loitering bus bum who helps people figure out which bus to get on in hopes he will get a tip out of it....

We find blue bus 3, and figure it takes us to Wilshire Blvd. Well thats what the crazy man said, So we get on it.....and find that we are in for a ride.......the guy sitting next to us, was in a leg brace, eating the blue government pages of a phone book, which was half gone, I am guessing in his stomach....

Then there was a guy (pictured below) who sat in quiet prayer, but dressed to the gospel nines.

We were a bit scared, but excited for our adventure to come.

Veida waiting for the shuttle to take us to the bus station.

Here we are scared.....and nervous about the people around us.

I didn't get the guy in the cast. but check this man's tie and hankerchief...sweet.

So we get off of the bus, because they made us......(end of the route). Luckily we were only a block away from Wilshire blvd.

We were basing our estimate of where Beverly Hills was by the movie "Pretty Woman" And since Vivian called Kit to tell her she was staying at the "Wilshire Beverly Hills" we thought we were close.

So we start walking....

and walking....

and walking..

we didn't have a map.....we had a bus route with a psudeo map on it.....and according to that map, we did not hardly move towards the goal of Beverly Hills....we thought we were lost.

So we stopped at a bus stop, and figured we would get on it and pray it went where we wanted.....

A lady stopped at the bus stop and chit chatted with us about the weather, her hiking trip, and that she was from New York originally....she got on a bus that came by, that was not headed to Beverly Hills......grrr.

So we started walking again

and again

and again...

Another bus stop, we waited.......we got on the red #6 that WAS going to Beverly Hills. YAY!

Here we are tired and waiting for a bus.