Hollywood tour!

My three-day stay in California was, for me, a chance and an opportunity to visit Los Angeles' Hollywood and other nearby places and attractions in California.

Actually, the reason for flying California was for me to attend to my Philippine passport that I needed to renew at the Phil. Consulate office in Willshire, LA.

The Phil Consulate has its new scheme being implemented in Phil. passports. This new scheme requires me to make a personal appearance and have my biometrics done at their office.

This new scheme will improve and faciliate passport check and scrutiny in entering other countries. Magnetic passport, as what they called it, will be the new face of Philippine passports.

After my passport renewal thing, I was toured by Dom Marcus and his parents, who had not yet left the US after Dom Marcus' Solemn profession. They were making a tour of LA and its neighboring places.

The chance of me getting toured and accompanied by a confrere with his parents made my visit to California an enjoyable and a pleasurable one.

I stayed with Dom Marcus and his parents for my overnights. Since Celine and her husband randy and their baby Mayumi are based in Orange County, they got a suite in one of the County's hotels nearby Celine's pad. Celine is Dom Marcus' parents' niece.

The Promenade in 3rd Street Los Angeles

me at the Promenade


Lax rounds with my confrere Marcus driving



at Tom Bradley International Airport at LA with Fr Mao, a Claretian priest who was going back to the Phils on the day I arrived at LAX

lining up for Fr Mao's luggages to be checked-in

while waiting for Fr Mao's flight to Manila, I had an early supper at a nearby restaurant inside the airport with my confrere Marcus and his friend Jojie, an LA-based Pinoy immigrant

photos of an early morning road trip from Orange County to Wilshire St for my passport renewal.





at the Philippine Consulate Office





while waiting for my number to be called

after my passport renewal application,the road trip to Hollywood: Los Angeles' tourist attractions, began



Hollwood's Trolley tours

Walt Disney's Music Center and Museum

at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels









Inside the famous Cathedral; its architecture and its artworks















at Hollywood Blvd.











later at night, back at Orange County and had dinner with Dom Marcus' parents and Celine with her husband randy and their daughter Mayumi

on the third day, Dom Marcus drove me to LAX for my 12:20PM flight back home sweet home: New Mexico





at Albuquerque Sunport, New Mexico