California Trip Update (With pictures)

Well it was a pretty productive trip here in Cali as far as work, but there wasn't much of an Entertainment aspect. I did get to eat at a few good places and also went walk by the beach which was interesting seeing some characters but nothing way out of the ordinary compared to a nice stroll on Bourbon St. It felt like I was at the retirement spot for Californians as there wasn't the California babes....Even though I'm married I can still look lol. Mostly Old men with their shirts off, multiple people walking their dogs, and the occasional attractive chick but nothing jaw dropping, sorry guys.

Their Facilities.."had waterfalls, benches, a place to sit and eat their lunches, it was rediculous and I was super jealous"

Erick "Easy E" Velasquez for NavCom. I told him to throw the "west-side" sign, I don't think he was that gangsta.

I went with a master technician who didn't really want to do anything but just go home back to Louisiana right when we got there so unfortunately there was no spectacular stories from bars, Hollywood, no trip to the Commerce. I also didn't really have the funds to play in a session if we would have made a trip to the casino anyway meh. The Facilities at Navcom were really nice and put our office and lab in Lafayette, LA to shame but I guess when you're a division of John Deere then you can have the money to splurge on facilities. Their Company Kitchen was the size of our working facilities and their Bathrooms were made of Marble...from Floor to Ceiling! Oddly enough they had single ply toilet paper, so atleast our office had them beat with that busting out with the Charmin Ultra Strong!! I took some pictures of the outside but didn't get to take a picture of their personal park they had in the middle of the building. had waterfalls, benches, a place to sit and eat their lunches, it was rediculous and I was super jealous, but nothing will compare to the food we have back home. They had no idea what Tony Chachere's was and one guy kept calling crawfish mini-lobsters haha.

There were a bunch of restaurants at the Pier.

Redondo Beach was awesome and there was a Pier with a little boardwalk full of small restaurants and gift shops etc. It was pretty cool. If you continued to walk (there was a street for pedestrians by the beach alongside a street for cyclists, skateboarders, and Rollerbladers) You could see the mountainside in the distance and it looked like something of a Portrait or painting. The weather was nice and sunny with a cool breeze all day and I went dip my foot in the water but it was waaaaaaay too cold for me to even think about going later on in a bathing suit haha but needless to say by the time we got off work each day the sun was setting. Which I'm sure If I wanted to bring a date to the beach during the sunset, I would get laid instantly. It was like a pimp's haven...speaking of pimps there were massage parlors everywhere. Not normal massage parlors, but Thai Massage parlors where I'm pretty sure you can get a nice happy, joyous, excited, climatic ending as well.

The Pier was cool and had some characters haha

I love the view.

Shot of the beach from the road

The walkway along the beach

Torrance, California was a decent suburb of LA where even though they might not be overly friendly if you wave to someone walking on the street or say hello if you walk by them, (they much rather give you a stupid look lol) but when we would go eat, there was exceptional service and the food was pretty good too I might add. Every where you looked, you could find the likes of either a sushi restaurant, Volkswagen hippy van, Mercedes/Lexus luxurious vehicle, Jogger every block, or skateboarder hipster kid. For the most part
I would love to come back and vacation and maybe sight see a bit more sometime in the future and bring someone to enjoy it with me....like the wife and future kid(s) and now have a bit of an idea of what to look for!