ARTESIA, Calif. — Blast reporter Terri Schwartz and I figure on eating a ton of Mexican food between our nine days in Long Beach/Los Angeles and four days in San Diego.
Our first stop was a chain joint called El Pollo Loco, the McDonald’s of Mexican food.
I had a green quesadilla, while Terri played it safe [...]
LONG BEACH, Calif. — I have a serious bone to pick with Alamo rent-a-car after we were quoted $380 for the rental car for the two weeks that we’re in California and then charged $770 — SEVEN HUNDRED SEVENTY DOLLARS — because I’m only 24. The car officially cost more than the hotel and airfare [...]
Landed at about 11:45 a.m. Gotta love Jet Blue, with the televisions in every seat. Watching SportsCenter makes those 6 hour flights just … well … fly by.
Long Beach airport is tiny. We actually walked out of the plane and onto the tarmac outside. Took about 20 minutes to get our luggage, but they were [...]
AT 38,000 FEET OVER TEXAS — I had the opportunity to pay $20 extra for today’s plane ride, part of Jet Blue’s (and every other airline’s) new efforts to suck every penny out of the overtaxed, overcharged, under-served American consumer, when I stepped up to the counter with two suitcases to check.
Glad to contribute, boys. [...]
