Going early eh? I was going to go Wed night and stop off at Tunica on the way, but now Thursday night or Friday morning are looking better.
I did do some interesting site seeing in LA just two weeks ago. I landed at LAX around 3:30 pm and my google map routed me through some surface roads en route to Pasadena.
On the way I stopped at the intersection of Normandie and Florence...the site the Rodney King riots began in the 90s. Right as that mess in Ferguson was going on.....
I was driving like my grandmother...if someone wanted to cut me off, hey that was fine, no problem.