Mike Hulsebus Photography: Southern California
In traveling to California to shoot the wedding, I had some free time to go check out the surrounding area. The day I
flew in, I stopped by Laguna Beach before a meeting later that day.
The next day, the plan was to hang out with L.A. residents Matt and Casey, but Casey
had to work from 5am to 11pm on The Singing Bee, so it was just me and Matt. Matt was kind enough to
give me his tour of the area.
Welcome to Hollywood.
We ate at Mel's Drive-In where they shot American Graffiti.
Before we walked around, Matt told me that there were a lot of places that sold stripper clothes.
I figured he was exagerating for humor's sake, but there are really a lot of places that sell
some pretty ridiculous clothes. Not underwear stores. Not skanky clothing stores. These are
places that sell clothing like nowhere else. Here we see Lucille Ball's star on the walk of fame in front of a
clothing/underwear/"exotic shoe" store.
On the flight to Denver, I was fortunate enough to get a window seat. And by "fortunate enough" I mean that I got
to the airport early to change my seat.
Goodbye Newport Beach. Goodbye California.
We made a brief detour over the surface of Mars.
The site of a future housing development
The Denver parking lot.
These things are pretty much one of the best air travel inventions in some time.
As the plane flies, this constantly updates to show the plane's current heading, altitute, position, and speed.
Here we are taxing on the Denver runway.
I didn't have a window seat for the way back to the Detroit airport, but our blue skies didn't last for long. We had to get around
a storm by going until we were almost in South Dakota. Still, we only added a 30 minutes or so to our flight time. And as a result, we
got to go through some turbulence (fun for me), got to see lightning from above, and got free Direct TV (which I used to watch Dirty Jobs).