06/16/06 -- just three different digits, but a whole lot of value. That was my last day in LA. I walked out of the elevator of my office building in downtown Los Angeles, got into my truck and drove out of the city forever. Just like that I kissed smog-filled days goodbye. You don't move to Los Angeles, you end up there. And we'd had enough. Enough of the traffic, the pollution, the crowded seemingly endless expanse of urban sprawl. There's just something about LA. Even the postcards are depressing.

So we're not going back. We hit the road tomorrow bound for the East Coast and beyond. The whole world awaits. I don't want to see those LA freeways for a long long time...