California Travel Blogs

This entry goes out to Joy, who this party would not have happened without. Thank you for putting into action amidst all the craziness going on in your own life. Also, thank you Eric and Lisa for coming to hang out! It was so cool to chat and be teased by "very exciting new development on TB that y…

Every man knows a way to a woman's heart (or at least mine) is great Korean food!! =)I get a call from John yesterday - seems he's in town for 1 day to go to the Korean embassy before heading back to LV and then off to Korea. This is the LAST TIME I'll John for a long long while. It is only appropr…

YEAH...it's road trip time! Tracy and Will are on their way and it's time for us to head out ourselves.  Unfortunately, despite what Old School Bill (OSB) preaches about NPP, sometimes plans and schedules are good!!! LOL.  Our mini detour ended up taking us on a 16 hour road trip ver…

After Joy and Jillian dropped me off my mum’s house in Glendale, I charged up my laptop, my phone and digi camera battery.  I repacked my luggage. I had a a bunch of stuff that I did not bring home.  Geez I think i am taking more stuff home. I hope Melissa doesn’t kill me. &nbs…

After a quick stop off at my house to leave all our wine, most of my luggage, and pack a small overnight bag, Brett and I headed to my favorite Mexican restaurant in Midtown for guacamole and infused tequila!  Brett had said he wanted to try fresh guacamole before leaving and this was the perf…

For the last time I moaningly woke up in my luxurious Paradise Inn & Suites Motel. A cold shower, a tooth brush and some packing later I was ready for a day of adventure and the unexpected. When I threw my suitcase into Tracy’s car the first thing I didn’t expect (nor realise) was, that I l…

During a summer back about 25 or 30 years ago we decided to take in Disneyland. We, is our family of five. Myself, my wife, and three children, ages 13, 11 and nearly 3. We had never taken on a large amusement part before. This was a first for us. We planned to arrive at about 10 a.m. and stay un…

Hard to believe it but another TravBuddy meet up weekend is upon us! My drive down Thursday night was rather uneventful. I worked all day and got on the road around 6pm and to my parent's house around 12:30am.  A couple hours of sleep and I was back up, ready to finish some work and a stressfu…

I met back up with Shane in LA before we headed home to Australia. We did a bunch of touristy things, like Universal Studios but the most exciting thing was waking in middle of the night to find the hotel being all shook up by an earthquake. I have only been in one other earthquake before this …

Once at Erin's, I was impressed with the wine collection she had been boasting about! Of course, it didn't take long to pour the first glasses. Lynn was supposed to be on her way to pick me, but as she was running late in traffic, I figured I could get a nice head start on the wine. I also made fri…

Home at last! Just can’t wait to get back home again. Back in my own bed, Eating my wife’s good home cooking. Shucks even she made the comment that she was getting tired of having to eat out every meal. After being on the road for 37 days, it feels so good to get back home. Now we have to go th…

Coming back to LA has been tough, for sure. Particularly to this economy. But sitting around all day is also bad for the soul, so I was lucky enough to get involved with a wonderful science/engineering enrichment program right here in LA spearheaded by the most wonderful young lady. The organizatio…

As with most trips I have ever taken, the planning stage is extensive and way overblown.  This one is no different, except that the whole thing began more than six months ago, which makes it even worse than the others.  I've had all that time to get things ready, check out all of the poss…

Today it was back to the daily grind of endless chores, emails, paperwork and stress.  I was definitely missing my TB's today and got random emails/texts/calls throughout the day letting me know that I'm missed and thought of.  Plus the endless smiles from this blog.  I'm glad I'm ab…

Wow...moving day got moved up yet another month.  Due to some personal issues w/the ex that got out of hand, we needed to get me out of the house early.  Brett ended up flying out the night before to help with last minute details as Thursday was likely going to be a crazy day.  …