Doug Van Pelt

Blogging from Hollywood

Ahhh. I am in California on vacation. Wow. I am going to try and not work at all here. I wrote some more on my novel on the airplane. I'm over 51,000 words on that thing now. I know where I want to go, but I envision a word count of 80,000 when I'm done. I guess if I tell my story and get to the end, then I won't force the word count to be exactly at 80,000. That's just where I guess most full novels are about that long.

We are in Hollywood. I came out here for a high school reunion. My high school is located on an air force base, where we lived those four years of high school (and a couple years during my childhood, too). They combine classes for their reunions, because not many people stick around this area when they leave (and their parents get assigned to another air force base, etc). This is the first reunion I've been able to make all these years.

We arrived at LAX and planned some hang out and look around time in Hollywood tonight and tomorrow. Looks like we're going to try and locate an In - N - Out Burger near here and then go hang out with Mikee Bridges and his family up in Ventura. I wonder if he'll take us to a rehearsal of Shiny Toy Guns. Wouldn't that be rad? (I'm just kidding. He knows those people, but I don't think they hang out a lot anymore).

Tomorrow we'll do some Hollywood sight-seeing. Then Disneyland on Thursday and reunion stuff on the weekend.