Salmon capital of the world: LAX

After a long day's journey we finally landed in LAX. We like to travel light especially now when all our luggage didn't make through the well-organized luggage handling process of Charles de Gaulle airport. This was the fourth time my luggage got stranded in Paris. Coincidence?
This is particularly inconvenient now when we keep moving on. The first night at LAX and the second night at Santa Barbara and we don't even know yet where we will be tomorrow.
Did I mention that we missed our plane in Philadelphia because we had the slowest immigration officer. We got 2,5 hours quality time at PHL aiport.
Thanks to Avis, I didn't have any problems getting my wheels. I will be driving Ford Edge for little over a week and it will cost me around 520€. Not bad. 

We are staying in Value Inn Worldwide. Does it sound cheap or good value for money?