Los Angeles / California Trip 2012 | Nashville Travel Photographer & Solo Female Travel

4/2/12 – 4/9/12

Monday April 2^rd – LA

Walt Disney Concert Hall, LA

Arrive in LOS ANGELES INTL (LAX) at 3:05 PM

3:30 Rental Car – 1030 W. Manchester Blvd., Inglewood, CA 90301 Advantage

Phone Number: 310-216-9204

4:30 – Leave for Mount Hollywood Sign / LA for Sunset

http://jayesh.profitfromprices.com/Hiking_Hollywood_sign_hike.htm

34°08′02.56″N 118°19′18.00″W or 34.134103, -118.321694

9:00 at hotel

Checkin Hawthorne Plaza Inn Near LAX

12043 Hawthorne Boulevard
Hawthorne (California), CA 90250

Downtown Night photo ideas – 4th Street Downtown LA /

1010 Wilshire Right / Rock Beach Road – for any night

LA Photo Ideas – https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/107542632252660344559/albums/5632965882750555905

Tuesday April 3^rd – LA

Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA

sunrise 6:37am sunset 7:16pm

Arrive 6:45 for sunrise – 4100 South La Cienega Boulevard -kenneth hahn park
http://www.flickriver.com/groups/kennethhahnarea/pool/random/

Hollywood Hotel – 1160 N Vermont Ave., Hollywood, CA 90029

11am for Premiere Radio Networks HQ (1 ½ hours)

15260 Ventura Blvd, Sherman Oaks, CA

3:30 Pick up friend

Hermosa beach, manhattan pier, santa monica pier

Groceries

11666 National Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90064

http://wholefoodsmarket.com/stores/westlosangeles/

2:30 Car Rental and add additional Driver

Dinner @ Vito’s Pizza – 814 N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90029-3517

Wednesday April 4^th – LA to Yosemite

Sunrise 6:35 and sunset 7:39pm

Leave 7:30am for Antelope Valley Poppy Reserve

Bridalveil Fall, In Yosemite National Park

Latitude/Longitude: 34º40.661 N, 117º49.645 W

http://digital-desert.com/poppy-reserve/ (free)

Yosemite

Arrive 2:15pm at The Historic Ansel Adams Gallery – Visitor Center and Post Office

9AM to 5PM

http://www.nps.gov/yose/planyourvisit/april.htm

Yosemite Cedar Lodge 9966 SR-140, El Portal, CA 95318

Standard Two Queen Room – $176.49

http://www.stayyosemitecedarlodge.com/

Thursday April 5^th – San Francisco

Sunrise 6:35 and sunset 7:17

9:30am Fisherman Wharf Pier 33 (leaves 10) – San Francisco’s waterfront, under the Golden Gate Bridge, along the Marin Headlands, around Alcatraz and back to Fisherman’s Wharf.

11:30-1:30 free time

2-4:30

Alcatraz, San Francisco

tour

San Francisco

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painted_ladies

Postcard Row in Alamo Square

Twin Peaks best 360 view of San Fran
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/SanFrancisco_from_TwinPeaks_dusk_MC.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twin_Peaks_%28San_Francisco,_California%29

Mythbusters drive by 1268 Missouri St., San Francisco, CA

Leave 8:00pm for Google HQ

1600 Amphitheatre Pkwy Mountain View, CA 94043

Facebook HQ
1 Hacker Way Menlo Park, 94025 aka 1 Network Drive Menlo Park, 94025

Apple HQ – 1 Infinite Loop, Cupertino, CA 95014 Apple HQ

9:30pm Leave for Hotel 1160 N Vermont Ave., Hollywood, CA 90029

3:30am Arrive at hotel

Friday April 6^th – LA

Sunrise 6:42 and sunset 7:41

Painted Ladies, San Francisco, CA

Leave Hotel 8:30am

Arrive 8:30 Venice Beach Boardwalk and Pier, take photos at Santa Monica Pier and Venice Pier.

noon – Annenberg Space for Photography (1 hour – free – no photography allowed)

2000 Avenue of the Stars Los Angeles, CA 90067

http://www.annenbergspaceforphotography.org/

Arrive 1:30 The Getty Center – http://www.getty.edu/
1200 Getty Center Drive

Arrive 4:30-5:00 in Malibu
Beach Photography for sunset
Matador State Beach
32215 Pacific Coast Highway
Malibu, CA 90265

Leo Carrillo State Beach
35000 W. Pacific Coast Highway
Malibu, CA 90265

Hours: 8 a.m. to Sunset

Parking: The Parking lot is open from 8 a.m.- Sunset. It costs $2.00 pay in meter box for an all day pass. There is also limited free parking on P.C.H.
http://www.craigwolf.com/news/labels/Malibu.html

Black Rock Cove

Carbon Beach for dinner (just north up the coast)

Saturday April 7^th –

Sunrise 6:35 and sunset 7:39pm