I would recommend taking the full 180 days and doing as much research as you can. I don’t know what you’re personal interests and goals are, but I prefer SD County to LA County. I actually worked in Burbank inspecting their roads and have been in the area you are talking about. I thought it was kind of cool to see & hear the planes fly so close overhead, but I don’t live there and imagine it must get old after a while.

You wouldn’t happen to work in the public safety profession, would you? I remember (back around the fall of ’05) stopping and meeting a nice lady while I was inspecting roads there. She was waliking her dog near Pacific Park and said she was working with the police department.