It depends on where you’re staying and how much time you have. LA is big and you’ll probably spend a good amount of time in a car. If you can, get a nice rental car that’s not too big. Parking is often a challenge and some streets are narrow. If renting at LAX, the wait times can be long.

Go to the beach if you can. I like Redondo Beach better than Santa Monica or Venice. Pretty and less crowded. There are wide, paved walkways and places to sit and watch the ocean.

The Getty Villa is pretty and accessible, from what I remember. The museum too.

Hollywood isn’t that interesting unless you’re going to an event. If you want to see it, I’d recommend driving down Hollywood Blvd. between La Brea and Vine. Or check out Cahuenga Blvd. The Hollywood Bowl is great and has accessible options, but you should book well in advance and be prepared for a long drive or shuttle ride.

If you want glitz and glamor, go to Beverly Hills and drive down Rodeo.

Drive down Mulholland for a great view of the city, or go to the Griffith Observatory. Griffith Park is also nice and has picnic areas if you don’t want to walk.

Downtown LA isn’t really a tourist area to me, but there are good restaurants. Some of the hotels have rooftop lounges with great views. Or go to Little Tokyo and get sushi, ramen, or mochi.

Well, there’s that, and also

• Having to work really long hours to try to make ends meet
• Being underpaid
• No or minimal time off work (vacation and sick time both, and sometimes even medical leave doesn’t protect you all that much)
• Poor worker’s rights in general
• Crushing cost of housing
• Crushing cost of education
• Food and everything else you need to live is getting more expensive all the time, and the quality often goes down
• Poor quality of medical care (on top of the exorbitant cost)
• Not being able to spend much time with friends and family because they’re all drowning in work or otherwise struggling
• Thinking about the number of friends and family who have killed themselves, come close, or are likely to try

Interesting, thanks for the pics! I’d never seen the babies or young birds before. They’re like the white horses, then, that are born dark and get lighter with age. Some of the Lipizzaners stay dark brown their whole life, though. They’re rare and considered to be lucky.

An all white Snowy is a mature male owl.

Interesting! I had no idea. He was preening himself in the sun. I got a few pictures, but they’re kind of blurry.

I would love to have gotten a picture of the spectacled owl because the colors are so striking, like you said.

The Uhu (eagle owl) had pretty orange eyes. I was hoping to see its wingspan to see how it compares to a Great Horned Owl.

What a pretty bird. I saw an eagle owl in Berlin recently that looked a bit like this. Sitting in the sun, and part of her body was hidden like this one behind a post, so she didn’t look all that tall. Beautiful colors. They had a pure white snowy owl and a spectacled owl too. They could fly around freely in a big enclosure, which was pretty neat.

They really are beautiful, and that’s a fantastic picture.

Barn owls live pretty much all over the world, right? Never heard of bay owls, but this one looks like a cousin of a barn owl.

The red ones especially are very pretty. I thought it would stick out more, but it’s well camouflaged.

It usually sounds like me. I can hear it in someone else’s voice if I’m thinking about something they said or might say. I can use other voices too, or make one up, but that takes more effort.

There’s also one that feels like a ghost of my real voice. That’s the fastest one to think in. It’s very neutral and colorless (for anyone else who thinks of voices in terms of colors).