A sunday drive in LA

Booty was in town from Thailand and Alisha was up from the deep OC so we decided to take a drive to East LA to eat some Birria. It was hot as hell out and the thought of a hearty warm goat stew didn't sound like the perfect summer dish but Jodi really had her heart set on it and Booty will and has eaten most everything that walks or crawls so per Jonathan Gold's advice we drove over to Flor Del Rio. It was really flavorful and authentic but i didn't take any pictures. click the link above for images of the food.

With our bellies full of goat Jodi led us on a surreal car tour of LA.

We began at a Mercadito where we ate fresh Mexican sorbet and window shopped for cowboy hats and leather vests.















Across the street from the Mercadito is a graveyard where we found the graves of some historical LA figures.





We drove around Elysian Park looking for a good view of the city and came across a dead end where there were a bunch of single latino guys sitting in their cars. We took a couple snaps of the skyline before realizing that it was a gay cruising area. We got in the car and drove down the hill which seemed to be covered with horny dudes looking for weird action.







As we came around a bend in the road we looked up to see this guy lurking under a tree on the fringes.

He was just kind of pacing back and forth under this tree looking completely horror show.

I really wanted to get out and talk to it/him but everyone was tripping and just wanted to get out of there fast. We named him "The Gay Reaper".





Our last stop was to see the amazing old Victorians of Angelino Heights.