Our stay in CA has been expanded by a few days, so now we will have time to do some of the things in the LA area that we weren't originally able to do. Now I am faced with hotel questions again. Would it be easier to just extend our original Howard Johnson stay and drive to LA a couple of days in a row or should I just make reservations at a hotel in LA for those days. We were planning on seeing the Natural History Museum, the Tar Pits, and the Santa Monica Pier, if that makes any difference.