Day Seven: LA
After a slow start, we drove down to Hollywood, where we had booked at the Kimpton Everly.
Tom and Em had come up from Palm Desert a day early and scouted the place, which was brand new, hip minimalist, and very nice.
We decided to try the new contemporary museum in downtown LA, but once we got there, it looked like an hour wait in the rain.
So it was back in the car to battle the freeways, LACMA ho! LA is probably OK if you live and work in the same enclave, but if you ever have to leave, it is absolute hell.
LACMA was great: we saw most of the twentieth century and contemporary collections. I hadn’t remembered how great the German collections were.
We had a glass of wine in the hotel bar before heading to dinner at Lucques, a Chez-Panisse alum’s really fine restaurant. We scored big again on wine, drinking an Arnot-Robert Syrah, which was a really, really beautiful bottle.