To Downtown Beverly Hills

My current temp assignment has me working at a real estate firm in Downtown(?) Beverly Hills. To get there, I could

Take the 101 to the 405, or

Take Coldwater Canyon, or

Take Beverly Glen.

I opted for Coldwater Canyon. Partly because at the 101/405 split, most of the cars were going on the 405.

Thus

Coldwater Canyon to Mulholland to Coldwater Canyon to Beverly Drive, turn right to stay on Beverly Drive, then right on Santa Monica, left on Linden, left on Wilshire, left on Roxbury to get into the parking garage, and

TA-DA! <Jazz Hands>

Have you ever been on Telegraph/Hwy 13, near the Claremont Hotel in Berkeley? All twisty and windy with posh houses tucked in the hill's crevices? Coldwater to Mulholland to Coldwater is like that. Only there are a few stoplights in the middle. And the houses are bigger and gated.

As Coldwater turns to Beverly, the houses expand in girth, and the street becomes clearly lined by towering palms.

Well onto Beverly, the street widens. Two cars interspersed with a pair of Smart for Twos can fit comfortably side by side.

A right turn onto Santa Monica. It's an expressway. There's Linden, but it only goes right. Perhaps it has a left turn further up?

Wait, that's Wilshire. But it's on a sort of diagonal, and I can't turn onto it. < small whimpering panic>.

Century Park? Avenue of the Stars? Multiple animal statues in the medians? No stopping anytime? <growl-y panic nipping fiercely at tinges of childish wonder>.

Oop – U-turn possible <flickering embers of confidence and hope>.

Wait, what? There are two Santa Monica Blvds? I don't remember Google saying anything about that. I'll take the Local – it seems to traverse amongst the buildings.

Ahhh

a place to park,

a place to breathe,

a place to map.