Hello all or anyone. I took a week off to recover, but finally filled in the details of the last few days of my trip, and what a wonderful, rewarding, successful and above-all injury-free trip it was. As for my brief stay in L.A., I cannot say the same. I arrived on a Thursday evening and was looking forward to a couple days of leisure before flying back at the weekend. Friday afternoon, not even 24 hours after getting into town, fate saw to it that I should be safe on my bike, but not in the sea. While bogie boarding at an L.A. beach, an activity I've little experience with (and likely will not pursue further) I managed to get caught up in a healthy-sized wave near the shallows and landed chin-first against the ground or the board or something hard enough to break my jaw in three places. Yes, ouch. A six-hour visit to the emergency room left me in quite a bit of pain and ready to fly home on Saturday holding my jaw in place until I could get it wired shut on Monday. Crap, crap, crappity.
Anyhow, my jaw is now firmly fixed in place and will be for 4 to 6 weeks. Hot stuff. I'm still going to get around to posting some photos, but the codeine has made me quite lazy.
