Archive-name: Changes/miratrip.txt
Archive-author: Mira Lacous   June 1991
Archive-title: Mira's California Outing


                        "A True Story"

  Following is a summary of an exciting trip that I took to 
California enfemme.  Mira has been out in the public eye 
before, but only on a limited basis.  So this was a real 
coming out, as you will soon see.  The enfemme portion of 
the trip started Monday night, June 17, and unfortunately 
had to end at 3:00am Sunday morning on June 23.  So there 
were five days of fun and excitement.
  The enfemme vacation started in Los Angeles, actually San 
Clemente a southern suburb. Monday night was spent getting 
Mira ready and getting rid of and packing away any and all 
male remnants.  This included putting on acrylic nails that 
I spent almost two hours on getting the fill just right. I 
also did complete body shaving and glued the silicon breast 
forms in place using a strong medical adhesive.  Once all 
this was done... I was stuck with it for a while.  I also 
unpacked and sorted out the three suitcases of clothes and 
accessories for my stay.  I finished the evening by painting 
the toe and now long and pretty finger nails a bright red. 
  I got up early on Tuesday morning and prepared for my 
first adventure.  I wore a rather mature sophisticated look 
with a coral colored pletted skirt, off-white blouse with 
pink/coral colored squares with an accompanying jacket that 
was an interesting patchwork of color and lace.  The outfit 
looked wonderful.  I teased my own hair up a bit and put on 
a good selection of makeup for a days outings.  The first 
stop was a complete head to toe make-over done by Jerri in 
Laguna.  She has a complete make-over service for natural 
women as well as TV's.  When I made the arrangements for the 
make-over, I told her I would come dressed, and she was a 
bit apprehensive, but said OK.  As she does this out of her 
home, I think she was nervous of what the neighbors might 
think.  But when I got there, she said something to the 
effect of "Oh my God, your quite beautiful".  We then spent 
over three hours covering everything from hairstyles to 
makeup techniques to clothing styles and colors.  I enjoyed 
the time there a lot, and it really gave me a confidence 
boost for the rest of the week.  She thought I passed very 
well and gave me all sorts of places to go and shop at.  I 
would really highly recommend her services for anyone who is 
in or near the L.A. area.  
  After the make-over, I proceeded to go out shopping.  I 
hit one of the malls and poked around for a while.  Every 
now and then I could hear a person telling someone else 
"Look at how tall she is... geez".  Sales clerks were 
constantly trying to get me to try things on, and I did a 
lot.  After the mall I hit a strip of discount outlet 
centers and really had fun there.  There were some real 
interesting styles as well as bargains.  I tried on a bunch 
and picked up some of the best ones.  One guy that I passed 
asked how tall I was, and I told him 6'-4".  (I'm actually 
6'-6", but didn't want to seem too tall...).  A little later 
I bought some soda from a vendor and he mentioned something 
to the effect of "Gee your tall, but quite nice...".  I can 
take comments like that all day long.  
  It was now getting a little late in the day so I stopped 
by a local restaurant and had supper and then went back to 
the condo to relax and plan the next days events.  
  Wednesday I decided was going to be some shopping and 
sight seeing.  Since the day was warm, and I figured I was 
going to be getting into and out of clothes all day long, I 
wore something real simple.  I wore a pair of pink sandals 
without nylons and a colorful pair of shorts and a matching 
top that left the belly button exposed and only had one 
button across the bosom.  It was real easy to get in and out 
of and looked quite neat with its colorful flowery pattern.  
So I started my shopping in Downtown L.A. and managed to 
find the garment district.  I spent many, many hours 
shopping around and trying things on as I went from store to 
store.  One shop had some really beautiful sequined gowns as 
well as silk dressed and suits, that of course I tried on.  
The sales clerks were very helpful, and just keep bringing 
me things to try on.  She also kept barging into the 
dressing room to see how I was doing, and never once gave an 
indication of a read.  I was so pleased, and the adrenalin 
was quite high.  The sequin and silk dresses were really 
great, but I just couldn't come to grips with spending 
$1,200 on a dress.  So I moved on.  One of the next shops I 
hit had a fantastic selection of clothes.  They had 
everything from the basic casual to quite elegant.  The 
sales lady was also very helpful.  As I went around the 
floor picking things off the racks, she would gather them 
and hold them for me to try on.  After I gathered quite a 
pile, I went in to try them.  The changing area was just a 
large room with a few minor curtains here and there, but no 
real privacy.  But I felt good and decided to go for it.  So 
I started trying things on and got some comments from the 
other women in the room at how good some outfits looked on 
me.  The sales clerk would run out for other colors or 
styles that she thought might also work and I tried them 
too.  One of the dresses was a lime green angora sweater 
dress that came to about my mid thigh.  It was really 
beautiful and hugged my curves very well.  I over heard a 
couple of other girls there say something like "I wish I 
could look that good in a dress like that".  I later wore 
the dress to the RGA Social that I attended on Friday night.  
I also tried on some silk tops and skirts as well as two 
suede jackets with matching skirts, one red and the other 
blue with black trim.  The prices were really good there, so 
I ended up buying almost everything I tried, probably too 
much.  I didn't have enough cash on me, so I had to use my 
credit card.  This was my first time using it as Mira... But 
they didn't question it or anything.  So Off I went with my 
pile of bags.  By this time I had quite the pile, so I went 
back to the garage where my car was parked, and the guys 
come running up to me and help me with the bags and ask if I 
wanted my car.  I told them I was just dropping off a load 
and would be back in another couple of hours.  They stored 
the stuff for me and off I went to hit a few other shops in 
that area, but they didn't have the same feel after that 
one.  My money was also running a low...  They were all the 
same or the prices were to high. 
  So I shifted my search to a new area a couple of blocks in 
the other direction.  One shopping area I hit had a bunch of 
independent retailers in a department store style setting.  
I picked up a new hot pink bra and matching panties from one 
place and found another group that was selling some real 
interesting clothes from India.  They weren't the 
traditional Asian Indian dress, but an American deviation on 
them that was wonderful. I loved the feel and color as well 
as the unique styles of the outfits, so I tried on about six 
of them and found three that fit good and looked even 
better.  Then found some matching jewelry and went to buy 
it.  I was still running low on cash, but really wanted 
these outfits... so I had to charge it... again.  I handed 
the clerk my VISA card and he rang it up and got the 
approval code and then gave it to me to sign.  Well when I 
signed it, he looked at the signature and the one on the 
card.  Then at me, and back at the signatures...  This very 
confused look came across his face he froze for a moment.  I 
don't think he really expected what he saw.  Maybe I should 
have signed it differently.  But he snapped out of it, and 
said thank you and come again.  And I went on my way.  It 
was now about 7:00pm and the area was closing up, so I went 
back to my car (which by the way was a red convertible), and 
the parking ramp attendants went and got my car and gave the 
packages to me that I had them hold after my earlier 
shopping bonanza.  We loaded up the car and when I paid them 
they said "thanks much miss".  I then left the downtown area 
and proceeded more east to Upland.
  In Upland is 'Especially For Me', which is a boutique for 
TV's.  Had to stop there to exchange a silicon push up pad 
that I had bought earlier that was the wrong size.  I ended 
up staying a while and having a nice chat with Paula, one of 
the TV clerks.  She just loved the way I looked and what I 
was doing while in L.A..  While in the area I also hit 
another mall and just did some looking around.  The mall was 
closing in 30 minutes and I wanted to see what's available 
as well as see what people thought of me.  No adverse 
reactions from people, so I had a great time looking around.  
After that I made my way back to the condo and unpacked all 
my new goodies.  Which took a while...  
  The next morning I woke up early and got looking my best 
and decided to shot a roll of film of the new outfits.  So 
as I waited for Martha to show up for our afternoon outing, 
I changed and changed again.  Each time shooting a couple of 
shots of the outfits.  I had the camera set up on a tripod 
out on the balcony and set the timer again and again.  I got 
about 40 different shots that way.  Some of the shots turned 
out very well.  Well Martha showed up a little before 1:00 
and as soon as she did I changed into my swimsuit and put 
some beach wear over it.  And off we went to the beach.  
  First stop was a 1 hour developing place for all the pics 
shot so far, and then lunch at a Subway.  Then we headed 
down to Laguna Beach.  We first stopped at the larger beach 
on the south side of town.  We headed straight for the beach 
area.  We had to pass the basketball/volleyball courts and I 
got some interesting glances and I think even a whistle.  
The glances were of approval from the men playing on the 
courts. Once at a good spot on the beach I spread out the 
towel and laid down to soak up some rays.  Martha got some 
shots of me on the beach as well as wading through the 
water.  I was in seventh heaven out there on the beach.  I 
didn't sense a single read.  Actually quite the opposite.  
Even a lifeguard was watching me over his sunglasses.  He 
looked like he was ready to fall off his perch as he watched 
me walk past on the way out.  I gave him a real nice 
smile...  Once we left there we went to down-town Laguna 
Beach.  We first walked along the Boardwalk by the beach.  I 
did get a sense of a read from one older man with a huge 
beer belly, but all he did was look in awe.  It was actually 
funny.  After the boardwalk we walked through the shopping 
areas and I check out one of the shops and then we headed 
back toward the condo.  On the way we picked up the first 
couple rolls of film and dropped off the latest.  The 
attendant at the shop didn't give any funny looks or 
comments about the pics or me.  It was quite nice.  After 
that we went back to the condo and reviewed the pictures.  
They looked wonderful.  I was so pleased.  I changed into 
something more appropriate for the evening and freshened my 
makeup and left to pick up the film and pick up some stuff 
at the local drug store that I needed.  At the drug store I 
got some interesting glances from some younger guys.  I 
could here them say "Look at her!", and then murmur 
something to each other... probably something not good for a 
lady to hear...  A couple of young girls following there 
mother around also made a comment about how big I was for a 
girl.  But I finally found what I was looking for and picked 
up a few other things that I really didn't need, but that 
looked nice and bought them and left.  I then picked up the 
latest roll of film.  I was greeted very warmly by the 
attendant again and had to wait just a few minutes for her 
to finish the roll.  When she was done, I paid for them and 
left.  Again I loved the outcome of the pictures.  They 
turned out great.  The beach shots are very good.  Maybe I 
should print a poster...
  After that I went back to the condo and packed up to get 
ready for the road trip to the south Bay Area of San 
Francisco.  I loaded most of the things into the car, set 
the alarm for 4:30 and went to bed.  I finally got moving 
about 5:00am and got ready to go.  Put on some pretty, but 
comfortable driving clothes and hit the road at 6:00am.  I 
made it through L.A. and up along Highway 101 towards San 
Francisco.  It was a long but fun drive.  
  On the way I stopped at a rest area. The rest area was 
busy.  I had to wait for a parking spot.  Once parked, I 
made a bee line for the ladies room.  And didn't have any 
reads there.  Actually there were a couple of guys that were 
watching me closely with smiles on their faces.  How foolish 
some guys can be.  Anyway the stop was nice and relaxing, in 
more ways than one...
  After a short time on the road again, I started getting 
tiered and hungry, so I stopped by a little mini-mart type 
place.  The place was filled with Mexicans.  There must have 
been 8 of them in this little place.  The attendant was 
really short, so I must have looked really tall... but she 
was very friendly.  I got my Diet Pepsi and M&M's and left.  
A little latter I stopped at a Mc Donalds and got a burger 
and another bathroom break.  On my way out, a couple of 
younger guys looked and winked at me.  I similed back and 
left as they watched.  What fun it can be.  
  Well I finally made it to Sunnyvale about 2:00pm.  It took 
a while, but the drive was nice and without incident.  I 
checked into the Motel and unloaded my stuff into the room.  
They only had rooms overlooking the pool available.  So I 
had to walk past all the people at the pool, again and again 
moving my stuff in.  When I was in the room and on the phone 
with Evelyn, a young guy (reminded me of Ted from "Bill & 
Teds Excellent Adventure"), leaned up against the glass and 
asked "Are you a Girl or a Dude?"  I looked at him with my 
mouth open in awe and look of shock.  And he looked 
imbarised and left.  I never seen him again...  On my next 
trip to the car, I did get a whistle from the second floor, 
so I couldn't have been looking to bad.  
  I had a couple of hours to kill so I thought I'd check out 
some shops.  I hit the Sunnyvale Shoe Mart, but they didn't 
have anything exciting in my size (14W).  I was also quite 
shopped out.  So I decided to hit a beauty salon.  I found 
one that didn't look to busy and walked in.  I asked to have 
my hair styled for the evening and she said sure thing.  So 
30 minutes later I had a great hair do. Then I decided that 
my nails had just a bit to much abuse over the previous few 
days, so I stopped by a nail place and had a couple replaced 
and the others refilled.  While I was getting my nails 
filled they had a TV on with a talk show.  They were talking 
about bad dates.  One guy was talking about a date once that 
after dinner and talking when they started to play around, 
he found that she was a he!  I immediately looked at the 
other attendants around and seen no reaction what so ever.  
So I concluded that I was not read at all by them.  Well, 
they finally finished the nails, and they looked wonderful!  
They did a better job than I did, but then again they are 
the pros.  
  I then headed back to the Motel to meet with Evelyn and as 
I drive up I seen her walking from her car to my room.  So I 
quickly parked and meet her at my door.  Once in we hugged 
and exchanged our compliments and just really felt good to 
meet after so long.  After chatting for a while, I changed 
into my new lime-green fuzzy angora dress for  dinner and 
the RGA Social.  I also packed up some stuff for the dancing 
later that night.  And we were off to Michelle's house.  At 
Michelle's we meet with Carolyn and Courtney Hill as well.  
We chatted a bit more and then took off for dinner at a 
local restaurant.  We all eat to much there and had some 
interesting looks by other patrons.  Once done we moved on 
to the RGA Social.  It was really great to meet the other 
sisters of the RGA board plus some others I hadn't typeed to 
before.  I had some real interesting talks and meet some 
real interesting people.  There was also one 'gentleman', 
Allen, there who comes to the meetings to find TVs to date.  
Evelyn described his actions towards me as "a fly on shit", 
I preferred "a fly on sugar", but the principle is the same.  
He even followed us to the Daybreak for dancing.  
  We stayed at the Daybreak till after 1:00am dancing, 
playing pool and talking.  It was my first time on a dance 
floor, and in heels non-the-less!  I had a great time.  
Allen was still glued to me a couple of hours later, 
following me around like a wounded puppy dog.  I gave him 
two and a half dances, each time he got closer and closer.  
I eventually picked up the pace and started dancing circles 
around him.  It was really funny.  I told him again, for the 
tenth time, that I wasn't interested in anything sexual or 
otherwise with him and he took off moments later... not to 
be seen again.  Poor guy, I almost felt sorry for him.  We 
danced some more, I watched Evelyn kill everyone in pool, 
even me.  And then we decided that we were going to have a 
long day on Saturday so we left.  
  The next morning Evelyn meet me again about 10:30am as I 
finished getting ready.  I wore a colorful skirt with 
matching jacket.  This was one of the outfits I picked up 
shopping on Wednesday at the Indian shop.  It was really 
pretty and very feminine.  I decided to also wear heels with 
it, since we were going to San Francisco, and would probably 
be read anyway... why not have some fun?  So I picked a nice 
pair of 3" heels that matched the outfit nicely and we were 
off!  We first stopped by a Walgreens Drug Store, because I 
forgot my contact lens eye drops in the rush and excitement 
to go.  After that we went to Fishermans Wharf.
  Fishermans Wharf was great.  It was also very busy.  We 
walked up and down a good portion of it and stopped by one 
of the nicer restaurants for lunch.  We didn't draw any real 
strong attention and had a fantastic lunch.  After that we 
did some more looking around.  We stopped by some jewelry 
places to see about getting Evelyn's ears pierced, but 
couldn't find anyone, besides an Iraqi looking gentleman 
with real ugly studs.  So we went on.  We hit some real 
interesting shops, including an Art Gallery I do a lot of 
business with.  They hadn't seen me in 3 years, so I wasn't 
recognized, but it was fun to see how they are doing and 
what they were showing.  We also stopped by a couple of 
other galleries along the strip.  I really enjoyed the time 
down there.  There was one read from a tourist there that 
had the look of "I've seen it, I've heard about it, but now 
I've seen it".  It was a really interesting look.  I gave 
him a big smile.  If I would have been closer I would have 
said "Hi, welcome to San Francisco" in a low voice... but he 
wasn't.   
  At about 3:30 we showed up at the Lacing Table Convention 
at the Chez Restaurant.  We caught the last 45 minutes of 
the presentations.  The information was interesting, but 
meeting the people there was really more fun.  After that 
Evelyn and I left again to pickup Doreen at her Hotel by 
Union Square.  She was staying in one of the nice Hotels.  
Evelyn and I were really starting to get silly, and almost 
to the point of trying to get read.  It was fun...  Well we 
parked about 1 1/2 blocks away from the Hotel and as we 
walked up to it we got many interesting looks.  As we walked 
through the lobby we got some more.  It's amazing how quite 
an elevator can be...  Well we got to the room and picked up 
Doreen and proceeded to go back down and out through the 
lobby, again getting some interesting looks.  We got Doreen 
into a silly mood almost right away and we all had fun.  
  Well we went back to the Chez to meet up with the other 
Friends of Carolyns Closet for the dinner.  We meet with 
Barbara Lewis and Marcia Sampson.  We had a great dinner and 
a real fun time talking.  It would have been nice to have 
some others show up, but it was fun just the same.  After 
dinner we went back to Doreen's Hotel to freshen up a bit 
and pick up some stuff she forgot.  We again got some fun 
looks and a quite elevator ride.  Evelyn even mentioned how 
quite it was with a load full of people... I could hardly 
keep from laughing my head off.  At about 9:00pm we were off 
again, this time to Finucchios, the world famous female 
impersonator show.  We got there in the middle on one show, 
and stayed through the whole next one.  We were read, again, 
but what else is new.  And had a great time watching the 
show.  The show was non-stop and was really pretty good.  
Many of their performers used their own voices, and did very 
well!  There were some amazing bodies as well.  We sat in 
the front row on the left side of the stage.  It was a good 
place to watch from, as well as be watched...  After the 
second show, I gave my camera to Evelyn and asked to get a 
few shots, and I got up on stage and posed as she shot 
pictures and as everyone watched.  The place got real quite 
as the other quests watched me up there.  It was a riot.  We 
left there about midnight and headed off to Amelia's a local 
dancing spot that accepts TV's.  It had a fair number of 
people in it, and we got right into the spirt of it and hit 
the dance floor.  I was really beginning to feel more 
comfortable on the dance floor, after being on the stage who 
wouldn't be?  Anyway, after a dance or two I started getting 
warm, and needed the ladies room.  So while in the ladies 
room I removed my jacket and bra so I just had a rayon tank 
top on over my glued on silicon breasts.  They wiggled and 
bounced very nicely.  I figured this would be the perfect 
end to a wonderful week.  And boy (girl) was it!  I went 
back out to the dance floor, feeling fresher and sillier 
than ever.  I got into some real high energy dancing and 
became a sight for everyone to watch.  (So much for blending 
in!)  Evelyn and Doreen loved the way my breasts bounced and 
wiggled, and so did I.  I think everyone in the club liked 
it too!  I was really watched close, and patted on the back 
and told "great dancing" a few times as I came off the floor 
to cool down.  I just know everyone in the place was 
massively confused... She kind of looks like a TV... maybe 
shes a TS... but those tits... maybe she's real...  The 
looks were really fun.  I can hardly wait to do it again!  
  Well we closed the bar down at 2:00am, and headed back to 
Doreen's Hotel.  We stopped outside for a couple more 
pictures.  I even got one with a bum on the street!  Evelyn 
and I then left for Sunnyvale.  We got back there about 
3:00am and I loaded up a couple of boxes and a big bag of 
stuff that I didn't have room in my suitcases for and gave 
them to Evelyn to ship me the following week.  I just 
collected to much I guess!  Anyway, I was going to have to 
fly home at 4:15 on Sunday, just a mere 13 hours away!  I 
still had a ton of packing to do, and unfortunately had to 
transform back.  So I decided that it would be best to pack 
and get rid of the nails before I went to sleep instead of 
leaving to little time.  So I packed and cut/filed at the 
acrylic nails until 6:30am.  At which point I went to bed 
for a full 4 hours of sleep.  What a night, but a great one.  
  I got up at 10:30 and showered and put on my boring drab 
clothes.  They really felt out of place...  And as I was 
getting dressed the maid came to the door.  I opened the 
door and she asked if I was checking out, I said yes, that 
I'd be gone in 30 minutes.  This by the way was the same 
maid that stopped by the previous morning and asked the same 
question, but I answered the door as Mira!  She did have a 
rather puzzled look on her face this morning.  Nothing like 
blowing her mind...
  Well I finished the last bit of packing and loaded up the 
car and took off to Michelles house to get copies of some of 
the BBS files that I didn't want to long distance down-load.  
We also scanned in a bunch of my pictures for her to place 
on the RGA BBS for all to see.  Even one of the beach 
shots... After a couple of hours of that as well as 
answering my RGA mail that was waiting.  I then headed up to 
the airport and caught my flight home.  All in all it was a 
wonderful trip!

  When I got back home I call Jerri, the make-over lady, and 
we talked for quite some time.  She was really impressed at 
all that I did that week.  I even shipped off a copy of the 
pictures of the trip for her to review and return.  Even her 
husband wasn't sure if I was one of her female or TV 
clients.  I really must recommend her services to anyone 
that can get to her.  Her phone number is (714)-495-0126.  
  The only downside, which will hopefully lead to an upside, 
is that my wife and I had a big fight when I got back home 
about my trip.  It was coming no matter what, so the trip 
really isn't to blame, it was just the catalyst that got 
things going.  But it has forced her to either really accept 
the situation or not accept it and leave.  So far she is 
picking to stay.  She even told her mother who told her to 
stay and left me dress at home... what a mother in law!  So 
things might work out yet, and for the better.  Again, it 
was a great trip and next time I'll do two weeks (or at 
least try), and probably even fly enfemme.  Who needs that 
1/2 a suitcase of drab stuff!
  I hope that those of you reading this can also get out and 
live the dream, even if it's only a few days.  It is 
wonderful and the best medicine I know!  So remember to stay 
pretty and have fun!
 
Loving Hugs to You All,
    Mira LaCous

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