Quickly...

I am still on vacation, currently in L.A. visiting my sister. Mattie has come up from San Diego and we are going to go out to the bars soon. Before I did anything else I had to sit down for a moment and tell my faithful readers about my day. For years now I have known about a very special tour of L.A. called the Dearly Departed Tour. It used to be called the Graveline tour but ownership changes and the what not have turned it into this tour. I have dreamed of going on this tour and today I finally got to experience it for myself. We saw a lot of different sites, homes of movie stars living and dead, quirky little places (Like the first place Marilyn Monroe ever had her hair dyed blonde)and my reason for going in the first place, crime scenes. We got to see the LaBianca's home (slaughtered by the Manson Family) and the home where Lyle and Eric Menendez shotgunned their parents. We heard actual recordings from Charlie Manson, the desperate 911 call from Eric Menendez saying someone had murdered his parents. Oh, we also got to hear the 911 call from Joaquin Phoenix after his brother River overdosed in front of the Viper Room. It was such a wonderful time, I really enjoyed it and took a lot of pictures. When we got back the man who runs the tour (Scott) was kind enough to give us directions on how to get to the site of the Tate residence up high in Benedict Canyon. The home itself was torn down by the current owner and a new home is being constructed there. We managed to finally find Cielo drive and made our way up to the very top. I managed to get a picture through the gates of the place where the home had stood. Then we drove over to just the other side of the canyon and got some more pics. The telephone pole that Tex Watkins climbed to cut the phone lines to the Tate residence still stands, hopefully it will come out in the photos. It was a great time, macabre, yes but still very cool.

Okay, I will write the whole story later, I just wanted to get a little bit of that one out. I'll be home soon...