Tahi: Smaug the dragon was on the side of the plane when we landed in L.A. I assume that he was on there the whole time, but I didn't check when we were boarding. I suppose we can claim him as one of our own.
Rua: At the bus terminal, we got talking to a machinist who lived nearby. Turns out his whanau come from the Rotorua/Tauranga area. Nice guy, left N.Z. to go play music in L.A. Still jams every now and then when someone ropes him in to help make their record. We needed cash for the bus, and all we had were a few hundreds, a twenty that we got out from a machine to make sure our cards worked, and one U.S. dollar that I found somewhere. We asked this guy where we could split our twenty, and he just gives us one. Nice guy. Turns out that buses to pretty much anywhere in L.A. are either $1 or $1.50. Barely anyone uses the buses either.
Toru: Anaheim. Walking the mean streets of Disney Way, we come across this unusual plant. Pohutakawa, if I'm not mistaken.
Wow! Cool.
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