Arbor Day in LA!

Today April 24th is Arbor Day and in Los Angeles you can see areas and parks beautifully decorated with local and exotic and imported trees.
The Chavez Ravine Arboretum in Elysian Park of LA was founded in 1893 by the LA Horticural Society. Planting of rare trees, indigineous local and imports have been added since, now including over 100 varieties of trees from around the world!
Go to http://www.laparks.org/dos/horticulture/chavez/gallery.htm for a quick virtual tour of the trees!

I've taken a break from the tours since I've been diagnosed with an Inguinal Hernia. My tour company has given me the run around since I first complained about it after helping some passengers with heavy luggage at the airport! The company owner said he wants me to go through the company group medical insurance plan and avoid billing through Workers Comp so as to avoid higher company rates and state safety standards scrutiny! The company manager was downright displeased with my mention of the Workers Compensation and said that it was wrong to make such a claim!! I'm awaiting word of my impending surgury, unable to work and no income until this is taken care of...

Getty Center

I did the Getty tour today, located high up in the hills of Brentwood just adjacient to the Bel Aire community of LA. To see the land and facility is exraordinary, together cost totaling over one billion dollars! The structures are covered with terrazo marble imported from Italy. Inside there's famous paintings of Van Gogh (Irises) and Gainsborough. The gardens are exquisite with amazing vistas of LA from 850'.
I then took 20 passengers on a city tour of Los Angeles, Saturday is a good day for tours since the traffic is not so bad!

Tour Biz Picking Up

Despite the recent economy problems, the tour business in Los Angeles seems to be doing better!
Today I had 17 passengers, 3 from the United States, 4 from Italy, 2 from Denmark, 2 from the Netherlands, 2 from England, 2 from Curacuo, 1 from Australia and 1 from Mexico.
We did the Grand Tour of LA which is the most popular landmarks around the city which is around six hours including stops at Venice Beach, a Beverly Hills photo stop, the Farmer's Market of LA, Grauman's Chinese Theater, and Olvera Street in Downtown LA.

Taking a tour of Los Angeles can be an exciting or frustrating experience! Tourists can take a guided tour with a tour company and professional guide or self guided tour.
Either way the end result may be satisfactory or a dissapointment depending on the expectations.
If you'd just like to see the popular landmarks and events then most tour companies can assist you with that or there's plenty of literature and websites available including my http://latourguide.org site with a link to my youtube videos to see more!
For the those history fanatics and detail oriented visitors, most tour companies don't hire guides to be too descriptive but rather entertaining with basic insight along the tour route. If specific details are of interest, then some pre-research is in order! Write down the details and questions and then try to cross reference through the internet via Google Search or Yahoo Search. Another option is to access the local libraries around your hotel/ motel to satisfy even the most discernible of researching.

LA tourguide

A tourist blog relating the experience of touring the Los Angeles, California area! The average and unusual tour scenarios may be described as well as the upcoming events of interest to visitors and locals with possible posts after the events.