River Phoenix - Message Archive

I was in L.A. for Thanksgiving. I live in AZ so it's only and 8 hr drive. Anyway when I was in L.A. For honor of River. I went to sunset Blvd. I got there early..to early. First I went to the front of the Viper room. I was 5 hrs before doors opened, so i relaxed. This was the place I was going to stop smoking cigars. 3 hours from that piont would be the last time I smoked a cigar. Back to River. I walked down to the Sunset Tower Hotel. The last place river stayed before he died. I had time to kill so I walked out by the pool. Laurence Fishburne was there. He was talking to a man at a table. I thought Morpheus.That's cool. I stayed there for and hour just getting a feel for the place. I walked from the Hotel to the viper room. with parking like it is, i'm thinking this might have been his last walk. If not the hotel was a place he stayed at alot, so I'm sure he walked sunset. sometimes. i walked it with great respect. I could not stay til they open the viper room, i had my family waiting in palmdale. Next time i go, i will plan things so i can go inside the last place River was. I smoked my last cigar where he fell outside the front door, and left Sunset, I went thru the hills. River was at a party there that same night he passed.

Next time I go to L.A. I will go inside the viper room. Just to hang for a min where River spent his last moment here in the world. Now I have another reason to go back, and give River another trip to sunset.