Alien in America

After about two weeks of colder weather, an early summer hit Los Angeles. This week we had unbelievably 80 degrees and I totally love it! All my colleagues are complaining about the winter already being over and not being able to wear their winter clothes. But I couldn’t be more happy about having this type of weather.

Since we moved to Los Angeles I have this weird urge to go out all the time and do a lot of stuff. I was kind of lazy back in Germany, but over here I always feel like I should take advantage of the awesome weather! This weekend we are hopefully gonna have some time to drive down to the beach. Even if I have not been there for only about three weeks, I so miss walking in the sand barefoot.

People who have known me my whole life, might find this super weird: But over here I totally grow to be a summer person. In Germany I never cared for the sun being out and never bothered going to a lake or to the park to sunbath. But over here I can’t get enough of the sun!

Besides the summer we also have another great thing going on over here right now: We are having the most beautiful sunsets! I can gladly see them from my window at work. And I think the sunsets in Downtown are amazingly beautiful!

Today Flo and I decided to go on a little bike ride. It was a little too cold to go down to the beach, so after a little research we decided to finally try the LA River bike path. In case you haven’t heard of the LA River yet: It’s not a common river, but a man-built river with a concrete base. Some people don’t like the river and the bike paths that follows it, mostly because it is pretty close to the Freeway. But I can definitely recommend the tour, if you are looking for an easy going bike ride in LA – and you can focus on the beautiful River sight instead of looking at the Freeway.

We started our bike Tour near the LA Zoo in Griffith Park. From there we rode southbound all the way down to Elysian Park. After a little break we turned around and rode our bikes all the way back. During the ride we saw a ton of different birds and also caught a good sight of the Hollywood Sign and the Griffith Observatory.

The LA River bike path is not very crowded, but you will most definitely meet a few cyclists and families along the way! For us the LA River is a nice alternative to riding our bikes at the beach or doing an exhausting bike ride in one of the Canyons.

A big trend in LA (at least for the people I hang out with) is Korean BBQ. Today Flo and I finally tried it and I have to say I love it! Two of our friends took us to a BBQ place they have tried before and wanted us to see. For tourists the area the restaurant was located in seems a little sketchy. But hey, it was Koreatown and that for sure is not exactly like West Hollywood or Beverly Hills.

The restaurant we went to was kind of undergroundy, not fancy at all and really Korean. The menu we first got was not in english, but the waiters gave us an english one shortly right after we arrived. The BBQ works as follows: You choose the kind of BBQ you want (it’s mostly about the type of meat you want), get a ton of side dishes and tell the waiters what kind of meat you want to start with. They bring you plates full of raw meat and you BBQ it in the middle of your table on your own.

The food was awesome, we ate way too much, the guys tried crazy stuff like Tongue and we had a lot of good talks on our table! If you are a little adventurous you should definitely try this place! But don’t expect anything fancy or tourist-friendly

3101 W 8th St
Los Angeles, CA 90005