I actually haven't been to our eastern neighbour yet; I went to your departure point of LA many years ago (or more precisely passed through; I was only there for a day) but I've yet to make the trip across "the ditch", as we call it. (Though the Kiwis pronounce it more as "dutch".) I like the quadruple layering here' vegetation, water, cityscape and sly. The needle "pins" it all together.
