83. Coming to America « Repro Man – stories from a reluctant ...

I could see the heat shimmering in the early evening haze outside those plate glass windows, and I realised that I'd not been outside yet, not taken a deep breath of unfiltered, smoggy, spicy LA air. ... We bought a guide book, booked a hotel from it over the phone in the departure lounge and told the lost luggage people to forward our cases to the hotel. We then shopped for clothes in duty free, bought sunglasses and hats with the labels still attached and put it all on ...