this time i tried to be timely and have uploaded a selection of l.a. pics under the tag losangeles (102 so far). go see to appreciate how many places we ended up going to.
can you believe people laughed and didn’t seem to understand that we went to museums and the universities in l.a. and would you believe we didn’t make it to the beach in seven days there??? i got tanned enough just from walking around. =P
as you can see, i found this time a family of …

there’s two places my sister and i visit in a new city : chinatown (if there is one) and universities (because we are unabashedly complete nerds).
visiting these places gives us a sense of how our own ranks amongst others. the l.a. chinatown is old and extremely grubby. i tried to capture that in the photos i uploaded to flickr tagged “chinatown”.
at the gates, i found a set of characters. one for harmony and one for wisdom (zhi). actually, the common word(s) for wisdom is zhi …