[Zeke]

Sounds like you are arriving on a Sun and leaving on a Sat. Likely those days are shot depending on your flight times. And if you're tied up all day Mon-Fri, then you've got 5 nights to kill. So some of these suggestions are ill thought out to ridiculous unless you want to try surfing in the dark.

Torrance has a lot of good places to eat and a few places to skulk around and/or shop. Although traffic is hideous in that area at 5pm, the beach communities are 20-30 minutes in that traffic. Go back to the hotel, clean up and hit the streets a couple hours later and it's not bad. But, it will be dark. Not a good time to catch a sunset off the coast unless you can get over there at 5.

There's usually some music in the beach towns, but the gigs will be late. If you wanted to catch someone in particular, Fri would be good. I hope you get some air time because there is a lot to see. When Grady was here, we went up to Burbank on a Fri night and hit Bob's Big Boy for the cars that cruise in. Saw SloDave, TRECup and a few more. We hit a couple of watering holes and saw some more Pelicans prearranged. And we had a Pelican dinner in El Segundo near the old Pelican headquarters. Wayne brought the 959. Hugh was at that one along with techweenie and about a dozen more. We did that on a weeknight.

Don't bother with Long Beach, there's nothing here. Come back in April for the Grand Prix.

Start a thread a couple weeks before you fly in and some folks might meet up. Schumi is right there and knows the beach towns by now I would suppose.