Port of Long Beach

Today we went up to Long Beach for "Green Day at the Port" . The public was allowed at the shipping port to see operations up-front and look around. The premise was that the port is working to be as eco-friendly as possible. There was a train tour around the port as well as a harbor tour. When we got there both tours were out of tickets. So... after parking in a remote parking lot and riding a shuttle over to the port... we found out that we basically wasted our time.
BUT........ we never give up that easy.
We snuck onto the shuttle that took us to the harbor tour. ( At the base of the Queen Mary) And then Dan started (for lack of better explanation) "Networking for Tickets" . Somehow he was able to get all 7 of us (Ray was in town) on board a harbor tour. Now the Germans have a name for this type of person who can get all sorts of things given to them, get what they want when they want it, and get into places with out paying... it is called a "schlitzur". Dan is certainly one of them!

There were thousands of containers in port... The Port of Long Beach and Los Angeles recieves 47% of the country's cargo.

The Harbor Tour was an hour long and was alot of fun. It was interesting to see the port up close.