This spring me and my best friend @fatosmodavitae decided to travel the West Coast of the United States and then head to Canada. We’ve been traveling for 1,5 months and had 9 stops (USA: L.A., Vegas, San Francisco, San Jose, Seattle and Canada: Vancouver, Vancouver Island (Nanaimo, Victoria, Tofino). Sometimes we would be going back and forth and back and forth again, so it was basically checking in and out every other day.
Let’s start with our first destination and that was L.A. Downtown.
Believe it to not, we were staying right at the Walk of Fame. Like, literally, when you stepped out of the door, you would step on a star! If you look at my picture with Michael Jackson’s star it looks like a normal picture, but guys, there was a huge row behind me!!! You really needed to stand in a row and to wait for your turn to get the chance to take the picture. In front of us there was an asian girl gang and they were all doing those funny childish animal faces with their hands. I can’t its hilarious!!! I love their poses, they make me laugh so hard!
There is part of L.A. that is called “little Tokyo” and it describes basically how everything looks like! It’s so Japanese! We went up to a supermarket to grab a drink because it was insanely hot and what we found were almost only Japanese beverages, all imported from Japan. Coconut flavor, coconut water, colorful looking drinks with colorful illustrations and what not!
Straight afterwards we headed to the Arts District that was supposed to be very close by. Amazing wall art should be there, comic like, but also graffiti and abstract street wall art. Our mane purpose were the angel wings. You all know this wall art, were everybody on Instagram takes pictures in front of?
You guys, I have the funniest story about it. So we basically googled the dress of it (thank god some blog had it on them, it was really rare) and then we went to those streets. We are looking and looking, but all we notice are social facilities with ppl chill outside, ready to rob us (we thought). They were giving us such a strange look (while lying on the ground or walking zigzags) and trying to talk to us. They were clearly under the influence of something. So were pretty not sure if this was the exact right spot. How could have so many famous people gone there? Later, after our search was taken to next level, we started to ask ppl that were working at the restaurants close by. There were also clueless – they said it clearly hast to be here somewhere, right in front of your nose!
So we went for anger round (another one!) and there you go – right between the trash, the social facilities and even much bigger graffiti there it was! Hidden under the influence of unspectacular corners so to say haha! Oner point is, that in between the wings is a blank space (what we didn’t know) – so it makes it even harder to recognize once nobody is standing in front of it.
There is actually much more to it – originally it was a project that a female artist started to show that there is a good side in everybody, does’t matter the heritage, location, sex, age or whatever. Everybody can stand in front of the angel wings and watch their inner angel come out. I think it’s a very beautiful thought! Especially in the States people are struggling with racism as much as no other place I’ve experienced yet! I’ve also found that many of the writings on the wall carry a very melodramatic, deep and melancolic message. But take a look for yourself underneath in the photo section.
As our flight from London to Los Angeles was sooooo long, we flew all over Greenland and look at this eternal ice!
landing in L.A. the skyscrapers look so beautiful though! <3
my first sunset in L.A. after the arrival
you can imagine our entrance door to look exactly like this
Michael Jackson’s star
famose Chinese Theatre
me strolling through litte Tokyo and it’s no joke, the sign says “little Tokyo”
typical Japanese themed shop in Little Tokyo
middle of “Little Tokyo”
ice cream truck in Little Tokyo
this is how the pic turned out haha
we climbed up a historical government building in Downtown and experienced this sick view
welcome to the Arts District
this is what I’m talking about – the infamous angel wing art is easy to be walked by and overlooked
of coooouuurse we came across those beautiful angel wings
random art in the Arts District
isn’t this car huge
pretty is different – kinda rough
so cute those are everywhere
phillip lim31 shop we came across
they had actually pretty cool clothes, they just opened up in the Arts District
me and my best friend hanging at their store, they were so nice and friendly
Los Angeles Police Department – what a fancy building!
basically this is how all the wall art looks like, notl that fancy at all from a distance or outside a gram pic
bus heading from Little Tokyo to Downtown
hair flip in the same spot
this is where we went for the black angel wings wall and then we saw police men on horses passing by… weeeeiiiirrrdddd
casual L.A. street style look
wearing one of my favorite matte fluid lipsticks by Anastasia Beverly Hills
found those beautiful magenta flowers in search of the angel wings
There is a German restaurant called “Wurstküche”, this is where the Phillip Lim 31 girls recommended us to go to – this pic was taken right in front of it
typical american school buses
probably one of the most beautiful walls we’ve seen there so far, I’m really digging the color game
this is how the wall actually looks from a far, my friend captured takin selfies
there is no such thing as too much shopping
especially not in Hollywood
how could you not end a day w/ some amazing typical american food and a huge milkshake at Denny’s Diner
thanks for reading guys I hope you enjoyed my adventures! :-*
XoXo
