L.A. Story

The Santa Monica Beach, looking west across the Pacific.

September 20, 2006

In Los Angeles for a 48-hour visit to shoot two commercials. Kind of a crazy couple of days. Flew out at 8 a.m. Wednesday, necessitating a 5 a.m. bus to O'Hare and a 3:30 a.m. wake up. Hit the wall Wednesday night about 10 local time.

Started our 12-hour shoot day at 6:30 this morning and returned to the hotel at 7. Not much to write home about, really, as I'm here for one day of work sandwiched between two rather long travel days.

We're staying in Santa Monica at a hotel on Ocean Ave., which only requires a short walk across a pedestrian walkway crossing the Pacific Coast Highway to reach the beach.

Did squeeze in a quick walk on the beach and it was as gorgeous as I remember it from the last time I was here in 2003. Enjoy the photo above.