My stay in LA

It's surprising how the arrival at one place can just consume you. Interestingly, when I first thought of coming to LA, I was only planning to pass through before heading to South America. Now, three weeks later, I'm still here. Obviously, I have not completed my international travels; on the contrary, they have just been postponed.

Over the past week I've been filling my time making cold calls to museum gift shops. One of my sisters designed a dinosaur card game with my dad. The game is called PairUp with Dinosaurs A-Z and included are 7 different games one can play. The game consists of 55 cards (1 pair each of 26 unique dinosaurs, 2 jokers, and 1 Dino Doom card). All the artwork is original and is drawn by my father. As my sister has been wrapped up with two kids, I’ve offered/have become the de facto sales person.

The cards are quite nice and have so far received a pretty good response from the people I’ve spoken with- Tomorrow I’ll convert to the traveling salesman and begin visiting toy and game stores; this weekend I plan to setup a booth at Venice beach.

Who knows how much longer I’ll be doing this, maybe a week maybe a month. I guess it really depends on how much momentum I’m able to create. There is obviously a part of me, the non destructive viral pest known as the travel bug, that may also begin to takeover. If it does, then I may end up having to appease its wishes and, if nothing else, partake in a short appeasement trip. Either way, it has so far been an interesting, and enjoyable, couple weeks.