Outtakes III: USA edition
Some moments stateside that didn't make it into our stories, April 2024
Greetings from the Great Ocean Road!
Sabrina and I are in the middle of an epic drive from Adelaide in South Australia to Melbourne in Victoria and we’re posting this en route.
A continual frustration when writing our stories is that there are always moments that don’t fit neatly into the narrative and with so many American memories to share from well over a decade of living in LA and exploring that vast and fascinating country, we’re making this a US edition of ‘outtakes’ that somehow missed the cut.
A strictly forbidden, behind the scenes look at that iconic sign in the Hollywood Hills. Not quite sure what all the fuss is about.
Los Angeles, Spring 2006
Poignant tribute to the fallen in the ‘Forgotten War’. Korean War Veterans Memorial, Potomac Park.
Washington DC, Spring 2007
San Geronimo de Taos Mission church, Taos Pueblo shimmers in the midday heat.
Taos New Mexico, Summer 2010
One of New England’s finest pitstops on a road trip from Boston (we’d just finished our lobster around the corner).
Massachusetts, Summer 2011
A counter cultural LA institution. Friends gather for a wedding ceremony at the Lake Shrine Self Realization Fellowship, Santa Monica.
Southern California, Summer 2004
Waiting for the wrecking ball. Classic 1936 ‘Streamline Moderne’ movie theatre near Chicago’s ‘Magnificent Mile’.
Chicago, IL Summer 2012
One of a pair of bronze angels by Norwegian sculptor Oskar Hansen at the Hoover dam memorial to construction workers: “They died to make the desert bloom”.
Nevada, Summer 2004
Architect Frank Gehry’s Disney Concert Hall channelling his Guggenheim Bilbao landmark.
Downtown LA, Winter 2005
Carroll Shelby autographed AC Cobra awaits its turn on the track, Laguna Seca racing circuit.
Northern California, Summer 2008
Solar eclipse viewed from the Santa Monica Mountains.
Los Angeles, May 2012
Anasazi Grain store, Bandolier Monument.
New Mexico,Summer 2010
Monument Valley silhouetted on its desert highway.
Arizona, Summer 2006
Catch you again soon, as sticking with the US theme we explore the Ghost towns of America’s South West.
Marco and Sabrina
Haha! Thanks Izumi. Memory of a very happy occasion at the Lake Shrine 😀
Thanks! We certainly are!
Had to look up that musical reference 🥹