Our flight home was uneventful, though it was long, with a layover in Las Vegas. After being in coastal areas for so long, it was definitely different to be sitting in the airport looking through huge glass windows at the arid mountainous landscape with casinos and hotels in the foreground. Alex has been waiting tables …
January 14th – February 7th, 2008 Wine tasting at Temecula wineries, evenings on the back patio by the chimenea with a wood fire, Mexican meals in great restaurants, long days at the computer doing research and finalizing our database, warm mornings enjoying the sun and good food on the patio, and long days sorting and …
January 11th – 14th, 2008 Just wanted to post a quick update. We’re still in Mission Viejo, being treated like royalty by Dave. We still have our own bathroom and bedroom, and Dave has made sure we are eating really well every day. We’ve had some awesome meals, both eating out, take-out, and cooking here …
January 7th – 10th, 2008 Leaving Redondo Beach was very cold, and very windy – with gusts up to 25 mph, but we were setting out for Laguna Beach no matter what. Determination can do wonderful things to the spirit! Facing what was going to be one of our longer mileage days of the trip, …
January 5th – 6th, 2008 Farmer’s Market So what is a Hachiya persimmon, we asked? It’s much softer than regular persimmons, we heard. It’s very rich in flavor, and delicious. It must be eaten soft. If it’s eaten hard, it’s like stuffing your mouth with cotton and sucking on a lemon – it just dries …
January 2 to January 4, 2008 Getting out of town What a wild day we had the day we left Leo Carrillo! We woke up early and started in right away with our packing up and organizing, but despite our steady movement forward, it still took nearly four hours before we were ready to leave. …
The winds are gusting to 45 mph, the clouds are coming in, and I have about a half hour before the sun goes down behind the Malibu cliffs. I am ensconced on the concrete floor in front of the public bathroom, with the cords to the laptop and cell phone on an extension cord running …
Leo Carillo State Beach, CA – Just North of Malibu Read More »
December 21st to December 24th, 2006 A gorgeous California sunset, a glass of white zinfandel (ok, it was a plastic REI cup), some chocolate chip oatmeal cookies, and a campsite right on the beach, tucked away behind a sand dune – does it get any better than this? Great Internet and cell phone signal, shops …
November 22nd – December 21st, 2007 Gotta love friends like this… We’ve been friends with Kathy and Gary and Kevin since Kathy and I met while we were enrolling our kids in kindergarten – her Kevin and my Alex. They are now 20, so that’s been a lot of years. They are such good friends …
November 17th – November 22nd, 2007 My sister Maureen and her husband Fred were gracious enough to visit with friends in Santa Monica so that they would be able to pick us up at LAX (Los Angeles airport) on Saturday. Everything went really smoothly, except for a bit of traffic for them on getting to …
