Of travel to LA... to stay with people I'd never met before
Monday, 30 August, 2010 at 1:09 AM 
Spending nearly two weeks in LA in the home of people I'd never met didn't appear anywhere in my travel plans when I started looking at flights to Seattle. However Seattle wasn't to be my only destination city this time, and so I expanded my search to include flying into Portland and taking a train to Seattle a few days later. Just to check my options... That was the search that brought LA onto my Travel Radar.
Maybe a little back story is in order: A couple of years ago when Bob and Brenna Redpath hired me to collaborate on the design of their blog (From Here to Eternity) that would chronicle the dispensing of most of their things, their jobs and their home so they could travel with their children for a year, our connection was immediate. Which isn't THAT unusual. I've made several friendships with people who started out as clients. This time a feeling of kinship emerged that had to do with even more than a shared fascination with moving from place to place and collecting stories from interesting people. The rhythms that appeared during our long-distant meetings made it feel as if these were friends who'd been with me for a long time. And so they traveled Europe, then moved on to Morocco then Peru... and then they came home on August 10. Excited for them, still, my West Coast destination didn't factor them into my itinerary. Until, that is,
