Even though I never gave much thought to what I would find in L.A. (most of my knowledge of L.A. was based on years of bad t.v., like C.H.I.P.'s and Three's Company) there were a few things that I think everyone expects when arriving in Los Angeles. 

The sun, the mountains (although these sort of threw me for a loop), the smog, the density of people, the collective desperation of thousands of people striving for an imagined dream of how their lives will unfold. 

There was also the unexpected. Those aspects of the City that you never knew to prepare yourself. As Don Rumsfeld would say; "What we knew we didn't know." 

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