GGR 246 AMERICAN EXPERIENCE

2003 Field Trip to:
Los Angeles and Southern California!

Itinerary: (all California)

Friday, Nov. 7:
Barstow, Cajon Summit and Pass, Mormon Rocks, San Andreas Fault, Diamond Valley Lake (Eastside Reservoir), Hemet, Riverside.

Saturday, Nov. 8:
Venice Beach, Beverly Hills, Rodeo Drive, Hollywood and Sunset Strip, Griffith Park and Observatory (Closed).

Sunday, Nov. 9:
Downtown Los Angeles: Metrolink train to Union Station, Bunker Hill Office District, L.A. Central Library, Disney Center, Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angeles, Angels Flight, Grand Central Market, Jewelry District, Broadway Theater District, Chinatown, Olvera Street.

Monday, Nov. 10:
Redlands, San Gorgonio Wind Farm, Palm Springs

PHOTO GALLERY
(All photos copyright by Thomas W. Paradis, all rights reserved.)

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	Photographing the uplifted Mormon Rocks, a product of compression along the San Andreas Fault, near Cajon Pass.
	The class at Mormon Rocks, with Cajon Pass in background.
	Enjoying the diversity of the 2-mile boardwalk at Venice Beach.
	Eating lunch after a courageous swim in the cold California surf.
	On the wall at Venice Beach.
	On the grass at Venice Beach.
	Admiring the ducks along the Venice canals.
	Along the canals near Venice Beach.
	Installation of a new urbanist (neo-traditional) streetscape at the famous Rodeo Drive in Beverly Hills. (Interesting note: Palm Springs has a similar project underway on its main street.)
	Inches to spare in the Beverly Hills parking garage. Those initial height meters were telling the truth!
	Trying on a rare albino Python outside The Kodak Theater in Hollywood.
	Ditto.
	Ready to board the Metrolink train at Riverside, anticipating a rail trip into downtown Los Angeles.
	Ditto.
	Studying the downtown maps enroute to L.A.
	Geography art along Grand Avenue in L.A., apparently suffering from serious continental drift!
	Checking out the info kiosk at the new Disney Center.
	Posing in front of the impressive and very postmodern Disney Center, new home of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, opened only weeks ago.
	Enjoying lunch at Grand Central Marketplace.
	Checking out the interior architecture of the 1894 Victorian-era Bradbury Building on Broadway.
	In Chinatown, shopping for unique clothes...
	... and foods, such as catfish in this tank. Frogs and turtles were two stores down.
	At Chinatown Plaza, prior to heading back to Union Station for the trip back to Riveside.
	One last shot of the class roaming the streets of Redlands, here in front of the Mission-style Smiley Public Library.