I recently moved back to the Los Angeles area after a year and a half on the Kenai Peninsula in Alaska and three years in Arcata, CA. L.A. and I have changed in the five years I've been away and it's interesting to roam the streets talking and watching the people who pass by. L.A. has got to be a journalist's paradise with stories galore; it just takes someone who isn't afraid to walk up to a total stranger and ask questions.