LA

Upon my first visit to LA, after a grueling 26 hour drive from Austin that ended where the 10 meets the ocean, I was greeted by the exact same transient survivalist window-wiping warrior that used to hit me up for beer cash on the drag between classes. I had seen this man less than 3 days ago in a city 1400 miles away.

‘Hey man, you’re from Austin huh?’
‘Yeah, you wipe windows by campus. How’d you get down here?’

This was 2003 and I was an extremely poor college student in my third year in the school of architecture at UT; I had been saving for months for this road trip.

‘Jumped the train, sucka. Want to buy me a beer?’

And that was my introduction to the networked infrastructures serving LA.