three days in LA

Los Angeles is a sprawling series of freeways and graffiti, barbed wire and palm trees, with clouds descending on the surrounding mountains. While the weather certainly recommends the region, the ingrained car culture leaves me lacking a sense of community or culture. Certainly LA is rich with culture, as diverse as anywhere in the country, probably the world. Yet each time I visit I spend too much time in the car, surrounded yet isolated in steel boxes careening around the region.