Yet another tragedy of a blog post. Other than the photos from nearly a decade ago, no further information is to be found about this trip to Los Angeles when I turned to it in 2023. I’m filling in the gaps, figuring it’s better to at least have the photos posted here with some make-believe text that infers impressions that might have been had, but certainty is not part of that equation. Well, here goes: obviously, we reached Santa Monica, California, just before the sun dipped below the western horizon. This also implies that we are staying at the Wilshire Motel a few miles behind us, a popular routine for Caroline and me.

It’s Christmas day, and our choices for dinner weren’t great, but who cares? We had a sunset at the ocean. Come to think of it, while everyone else is shooting for elegance and family time, we are happy aiming for grand and weird.

Update: from a Facebook reminder for Caroline, apparently, we dipped into Pot Restaurant in Koreatown, where she had a Celery Root drink, and maybe we had something from this counter display or appetizers, which is possible considering we wouldn’t have had reservations and there’s a thought that we couldn’t exactly be seated for a full dinner, here at the last minute. Foggy memories that would have better been served with proper notes and photos. The image below was rescued from Facebook.

This is, in fact, the Celery Root drink Caroline ordered from Pot, where she also tried the Kimchi mixed drink. As for staying at the Wilshire Motel, we certainly did not, as other requests and confirmations from 2014 still exist in email. I can’t find a confirmation of any sort from our Christmas visit to Los Angeles, so I have no idea where we stayed, not that it really matters anyway.