On the first day, I freaked out and thought it was all a big mistake. I started to look for ways to go back.

But as days passed, stories started to unfold and a lot of things began to make sense..

In my notes, a list of things to write about one day, hopefully before it fades away:

• The one-way flight to LA

• Driving license dilemma as a New Yorker

• Car dilemma and car workarounds

• PCH - Paradise Coast Highway

• Apartment

• Halloween Day

• Banters with coworkers, office episodes

• The LA vs NYC question, and consciously avoiding being a snob

• First impression vs first month

• On trying to be active

• Friends visits

• Mom and OJM visiting

• The pleasure of setting up the apartment with pieces of stories

• LA-NYC solution: The birth of the bicoastal identity

• NYC as hyper-independence and LA as dependence

• The desert: I get it