The other part of our Hop on Hop Off trek.....(Day two in ZuM, Zum Universe tale)....or Part 8 of Californa driving)

Hello Everyone following this car trekking trip so far.......
     What was I thinking of last time I was writing with our adventure of being in a part of  Los Angeles county most revered cities within Los Angeles itself? I am speaking of the town with in Los Angeles known as Hollywood of course. I was sharing of our walking on the stars  of well not this kind 

seen here zipping by at the speed of  being trapped in a tunnel of space at all. Although those that know me very well know I  wouldn't mind being a student of learning even more about Time traveling if it were an actual probability. No the very stars that I am talking of through are the ones that start at this very structure seen here

which is located at  Hollywood Blvd and  Vine in Hollywood California, when I was talking of also a grand bus tour called a Hop on and Hop Off that took us all around West Hollywood itself. That very ticket we bought at seven forty-five still had some time on it, so this morning we again walked on a Connor of the walk of frame that we didn't yesterday and these are a few of what I got before boarding the tour bus.   

Oh and don't worry before I'm done with saw on the East side of Hollywood I will show you all the one star that I came to get a photo of. On this part of the tour that we were on we saw the famous  Walt Disney Music/concert hall

along with finding out that this part of Los Angeles is where it is the only place where you can find three cultures of the human race getting along. When in two the three diverse backgrounds wouldn't get along for the most part in their own countries, the three that I'm speaking of  are     

 the country that one my good friend's is from Korea and yes that is for you my friend named Chan Hu, and we also went through Hollywood's own little  China where I got a great shot of this dragon archway as we passed under it.

 I also was able to get a couple of neat shots  of this very striking Martial Artist in one the Chinese restaurants as we passed through

Chinatown. When we came upwards towards the Japanese areas the city was locking off that section because of road work. Yet I  wanna think that it was on our way to being on the road to from San Simion California that we had heard on the radio of the artist called  Prince's passing and while on this side of our Hop on Hop Off  bus tour I got a cool bit of respect for him. Seen right

here, now before I tell you that we are yet again ready to as Optimus Prime told his fellow Autobots pals in each episode of the original Transformers cartoon series ......."Autobots Transform and Roll Out" I have to show you my reason for choosing the Walk of fame as my real reason for coming here and it is  this right here  

 The man who was part of making (not alone of course) the words and plots for the created universe that is opposite of that one known the characters of Superman, Green Arrow, The Flash, and so on of vast comic book characters their universe is known as The D.C. universe or  as Detective Comics. Where as Stan Lee wrote most the beginnings of the Marvel comics titles from nineteen sixty one till about nineteen seventy, his more notable characters are The Rhino, Doctor Otto Octavius, The Green Goblin, did you see what I did there to separate the two main comic universes?  One last thing I really noticed around Hollywood besides Hamburger joints as we were heading towards San Diego was a lot of doughnut shops at almost every corner....... 
        To Be Continued....
     Till then This is Matt Byrd reporting live in Hollywood on the famous walk of fame!         

The sidewalk of Many famous ...well Stars (pt.7 of 17 Zum,Zum of that little thing called a two week break!)

Hello to all who endeared thus journey so far of this very trek to the starry road,
 Well to say that we are at the halfway point of my vacation for two thousand and sixteen isn't an understatement we of course are. Yet I still feel I haven't gotten you my dear readers up to date on everything picture wise or if your late to the party so far I wish I knew how to draw you in ever more so.....here is a small recap in pictures so far  

  Oops, wrong set of pictures that I seem to of tossed into this trek, when these were from my adventure last year, so silly of me this was what I was meaning to put in this area were 

    these of being in two other parts of the Golden State. My folks and I got here to the old part of Los Angles known as HOLLYWOOD just

at three forty five pm yesterday afternoon, what we were originally going be doing when we planned for this trip was go to universal  studios and have a whole experience of  seeing the world of that boy wizard created by J.K. Rowling. We had decided instead of going to that theme park called The Wizarding world of Harry Potter when planning this whole vacation, to see the Hollywood  walk of  the stars of fame, which is located at Hollywood Boulevard and runs for three blocks all the way to Vine street in the city. That was way back during the month of February that we had it all locked into place. One thing that I had been wanting to do since we had touched down on the Oakland, California tarmac last Saturday the twenty fourth of this month and started our adventure really in Dublin with seeing these two wonderful

people, my younger sister Kylie Byrd and her son Bryce Henrikson , on our second day of this  vacation we went and put uncle Matt Byrd where I really belong on the island prison known as 
  

Alcatraz....but in all seriousness the one thing besides all of this traveling that we are doing, I have had wanted to try out one of those little restaurants known as "IN-N-OUT" with Bryce and still till we got here to Hollywood itself we still had not ventured towards one. After finding out that we had to change our hotel reservations from the Days Inn instead of the Comfort Inn we all decided to go eat at this

           located 7009 Sunset Blvd which in Hollywood was just behind where we were staying. Here is what it looked like on the inside

so if you think one isn't so busy ever well just think again....we took our food back to our hotel room and went about planning our day of the many choices we had, besides just the nice walk of the famous starred up sidewalk and we looked on the internet to see where the stars I WAS WANTING TO SEE WERE located at and with that here is some of those very stars

of all of the many stars that I grabbed pictures of I bet that if your a true fan of Star Trek of the whole original series mainly didn't just catch that in my first salvo of the stars I Phasered captain Christopher Pike into they foray.... If your not a Trek fan can you guess which these stars is the true actor's real name that played Christopher Pike?  Also while out and about I had myself a couple shots with two True Hollywood hunks

,well I thought they were outright cool anyway! We went back to our hotel for a small amount of rest and to charge our batteries on my digital camera, so about hour of waiting and trying to decide if we wanted to see a movie in actual Hollywood we had chosen to do a Hop on Hop off  bus tour around the whole city, on that ride we got to see some great things like CBS television taping studio .

 We while on this tour got to see a part of downtown known as Beverly Hills and learned a lot about two movies it was apart of  the first being Beverly Hills cop films series and Legally Blonde one and two.

 At the same time we also saw Hollywood's comedy start up lounge, and the area of those who are gay hang out as well. When we were going through Melrose many streets there was a chance for me to grab a photo of a comic book store that I remember since I was collecting way back in my late teens the shop's name is "HE GOLDEN APPLE" and wouldn't you know I missed completely. When the tour was over we had chosen to eat here

but it was getting too nippy for my folks and we walked over to a Hawaiian restaurant that was closer to our hotel for the night, Since Mel's Drive In was three miles from our place anyway.
 To Be Continued......
   (Maybe even tonight so I can keep the rest of the trip lined up right as well)

So you think TRUMP is something.......Who was Hearst....and praving the way to.....(Pt.6 of the Zum,Zum, road warriors)

Hello All who are on the GOLDEN ROAD with me to tinsel town,
   Before we get going with this one I do have to admit my brain is always in flux when comes to titling these posts wouldn't you say?  Anyhow what I really want to let everyone know was that after getting to San Simion California we had decided after finding out the tours to the castle were stopped for the day we would by our tickets for the first outing for this morning at the visitor's center when we bought our tickets we were able to see a short film about William Randolph Hearst from before her was born till his death. It included the building of the very place seen just above our heads

After watching the film we looked around the inside of the visitor center Here is a small bit of what we saw just on the outside of the theater

Now there is one very Big difference between Hearst and Trump is really only this is one was for the Democrats and the other is for the Republicans. The thing they both share are a lot of money. In the short film we find out that William's dad was a miner during the gold rush times in the early eighteen hundreds yet while everyone else was on for gold George Hearst was the miner who first found silver and spent very little time with his son, while William and his mother traveled Europe and other parts of that side of the world, in fact the only he and his pa saw eye to eye on was wealth.
         Then before going out to eat at one the ocean side restaurants we saw when came to our hotel we went back about four or five miles back on the highway where we had seen the whole beach covered

with these wonderful animals. When we got up this morning I took two my cereals down to the hotel's breakfast area and also had a banana with my meal and some juice. We got to the Hearst visiting center at eight forty and saw a little bit more of Hearst History

along with getting our photo taken with a green screen behind us before boarding our tour bus seen here.

I can only tell you that our audio narrator on the bus was none other than the host of the show after Wheel of Fortune on most NBC network stations? Once we got to the castle itself we could take pictures outside with a flash like these seen

  here. It was once we were inside the castle that we had to turn the flash option turned off on our cameras. And yes to find out that Hearst had started building this very place because of  an architect that was in his employment already working for one of Hearst's many newspapers in California her name was Julia Morgan had blown a p[art of his hillside ranch mountain with dynamite in the year nineteen, nineteen Hearst was both mad and happy at the same time for he could start to build his "La Cuesta Encalada" which is Spanish for The Enchanted Hill. They worked for twenty eight years of putting the castle together, but Hearst was always changing his mind even when it was completed in nineteen forty seven when Hearst started ailing Altogether it is consist of  Fifty six bedrooms, sixty one bathrooms, nineteen sitting rooms, one hundred and twenty seven  acres for gardens, and indoor and outdoor pools, a tennis court, and  a movie theater, an airfield and last but not least Hearst had his own privatized zoo. Here are some of the sitting rooms I got pictures of.

When we got done with our tour of "The Grand Rooms" we boarded the bus and headed back to the visitor center Chuck got a coffee to go to keep him awake throughout the day, we went in search of his mother's home church her name was Phoebe Apperson Hearst and every Sunday she rode in the Carriage seen here

for a three days to reach her destination. Once we reach the Presbyterian church she attended it had been rebuilt several times over and it was close to lunch time I had suggested this restaurant seen at a glance here.

It was Popeye's Chicken and the last time I remember having some their food was back when I lived in Maryland from nineteen eighty six till the summer of nineteen eighty eight, and if my memory serves I think it was when we were in Baltimore when we had that outing. So after leaving the city boundaries of San Simion we went down the freeway toward you guessed if you haven't already to Hollywood.

       To Be Continued.....