Flight path back from Georgia includes Akransas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, Arizona and finally California. Great flight friendly people.
Hollywood
Apparently there are approximately 17 Million people in the greater Los Angeles area.
Hollywood was originally named by H J Whitley in 1886.
The Hollywood sign was originally erected on 1924 and read “Hollywoodland”, in 1949 they removed the letters “land”. It was refurbished in 1978 and still looks great today.
Hollywood Bowl
This is the entrance to the famous Hollywood Bowl
This water fall design outside the Hollywood Bowl was designed in 1938 by George Stanley, the sculptor of the Academy Award’s Oscar statuette.
This place is enormous it took several minutes to just walk to the very last row, if you look really hard to the upper right you will see Mt Lee and the Hollywood Sign
Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills is home to the famous Rodeo Drive. We took a couple of drives up and down the street and saw all the big name stores. The Pretty Woman thing is a bit of a myth, if you want to buy something they are more than happy to take your money.
Sunset Boulevard
Whiskey a go go
Whiskey a go go has hosted gigs by some of the worlds most famous bands including Guns and Roses, The Doors, Motley Crue, Jimi Hendrix, Cream, Oasis, Soundgarden, Nirvana and Metallica.
Rainbow Bar And Grill
This place has some history, it was originally named the Villa Nova restaurant and was originally owned by Judy Garlands husband. In 1952 Joe DiMaggio and Marilyn Monroe had a blind date here. The Rainbow Bar and Grill featured in Guns and Roses music videos November Rain and Don’t Cry and is the place where John Belushi ate his last meal. It was quite a surprised when I saw it that night on the plane in Notorious (2009), a documentary about the life of Biggie Smalls aka Notorious BIG. The Notorious documentary has so far grossed over $42,000,000 worldwide.
Pretty Woman
This is the Las Palmas Hotel from Pretty Woman. Remember Richard Gere pulls down the fire escape with his umbrella to rescue Julia Roberts.
Sister Act
This is the Church from the movie sister act starring Whoopie Goldberg. It was also used in Back to the Future 1 + 2, Anger Management and The Godfather just to name a few.
Million Dollar Baby
This is one of the shooting locations for Million Dollar Baby, this is where female boxer Maggie (Hillary Swank) worked. Million Dollar Baby starred Morgan Freeman and was directed by Clint Eastwood.
Flint Publications
Playboy Mansion
This is about as close as I could get to the action, sorry lads !
La Brea Tar Pits XXXX
Shot of lake pit (one of the hundred tar pits). This was amazing there are huge bubbles of Methane that come to the surface every few seconds.
Light Sculpture
Walt Disney Concert Hall
Pueblo de Los Angeles
Really interesting part of LA. In the early 1900′s the city evicted over 3000 Chinese people to build a railway system to improve the infrastructure of the City. Today the railway building still stands however it is surrounded by a thriving china town as well as the Pueblo de Los Angeles historical monument. There were street performers there today along with a public art gallery and market stalls, really great atmosphere.
Meet the Osbournes
This house was great to see I remember the big wooden gates opening in the TV reality show, followed by Ozzy shouting obscenities about dog faeces or venting his frustration about using the TV remote. Classic !!!!
Guess
Went to the Guess store in downtown LA but did not realise how high profile the Marciano family is. This is a shot of the house, check out all the Ferraris. There were 2 gates. There is a line of exotic sports cars from one end of the house to the other.
Michael Jackson
Heaps of cameras waiting outside this house… cars parked all over the side walk waiting for a glimpse of the star. Michael had apparently just got home and was inside preparing for his upcoming tour. Notice the christmas decorations, apparently he likes the decorations so left them up.
The flight from Toowoomba to Brisbane took approximately 20 minutes. I looked out the window shortly after take off and realised that we already passing Gatton. At this point we were offered a mint. No sooner had I swallowed the mint when the Captain announced our decent. 
The De Havilland Canada Dash 8 – 100 also known as the Bombardier Dash 8 is more commonly referred to in recent years as the Q100 Series Turboprop (The Q stands for quiet). I realised after talking to the Skytrans staff that this Q100 (approx. 37 passengers) is from the same family as the Q400 (approx. 75 passengers) that is used by Qantas for regional flights, including my last trip from Brisbane to Canberra in the off season when the number of passengers on that Sunday were quite small. The Q400 is powered by 2 engines that produce over 4, 500 horse power each. The engines powering the Q100 are a little smaller, producing approximately 2000 horse power each, allowing a cruise speed of a little over 400km/h.
