California Travel Blogs - Page 10

LA Part three - and if I am honest I would have only have done part one but needs must in this case. LA is one of those places you have to see as I have said previously but it isn't somewhere I could see myself staying for a while. I decided to stay in Banana Bungalow in Hollywood again, mainly bec…

I was talking to Racquel about it. She encouraged me to write about it. She wanted to read my perspective on the event even if I did not have a lot of pics. In case you want to see pics check out the other blogs on the SF meeting. My buddies took a lot of pics. haha. Well here it goes...I wo…

Ok ladies, you all have got me addicted, wanting more. Tsk tsk! I can't say I have converted yet since I have not become part of the "10 girls to 1 guy" in the bed pics (which I see don't appear on TB)...but u might get me to convert one day. Just be patient. =P As I told Julz, watch out! lol jk jk…

Well, this was my first meet up. And it happened to be not far from where I live. So that was great. I was a bit nervous at first because I didn't know what to expect! But I knew I would like everyone because everybody seemed so nice online. And they are even better in person! I didn't make it to…

After closing down the club that night, which involved my awkward dancing to house music for the first time before finally getting into a more comfortable hip-hop groove downstairs, having the music be so loud a martini glass made its own way off the table to shatter on my foot, and then having eve…

Well, having failed the first time, we were back at Dos Palmas Oasis to try again to map the marsh. This time, we also had the task of monitoring Salt Creek, home of Desert Pupfish, a little endangered fish that somehow survives in the saltiest, hottest, most toxic waters in the desert. It's a t…

My vacation to Los Angeles started really bad. First my flight from Oslo to London was delayed. Then there were some terror threats on Heathrow, so the line thru security took almost 2 hours. Missed my flight to LA by just a couple of minutes and got a stand-by to Chicago. Got on board that flight …

When I booked my flight to travel to Asia, I think I might have purposely chosen the itinerary of getting a 9 nine hour layover in L.A. in hopes of meeting up with some TB friends in SoCal that I hadn't seen for over a year. And it actually turned out better than I had hoped for, because Alice (ali…

San Diego - home of the Anchor Man - don't worry, I'm not going to fill the blog with a load of quotes, though it would be fun! We flew into San Diego via Denver and by this stage of the trip, we just wanted some beach time.  We decided to splash out a bit here and get a really comfy hotel by…

The Channel Islands are located only a few dozen miles off the coast of California and the crowded suburbia of Los Angeles, but they feel like they are worlds away. They are called the "Galapagos of North America" because of the wide diversity of plant and animal life there, and include many specie…

Preparing for a country like Ghana is a pretty tedious thing to do.  There are the necessary immunizations, medications, buying proper gear and clothing, obtaining a visa, etc.  I would recommend starting your preparations at least one month before your trip, as some vaccines and meds tak…

7/27/2007Well we are back and adjusting to life in America again, enjoying the benefits of being able to have ice cubes anytime we want, drink red wine, eat fattening cheese, sleep in our own bed on a pillow that doesn’t feel like an overstuffed sausage, eat a steak (yes Murli, we are thinking of…

Ok, sure the title of this first entry sounds racist, it's just that except for my parents, I don't really know a lot of chinese people! Ever since high school, I've somehow been surrounded mostly by Korean and white people. I never really fit in with the chinese crowd, but this was really quite an…

One of the first questions people ask about my volunteer experience is, "Was it scary?" My first instinct is to say no. Once I was in Salvador, I was immediately comfortable. And then I remember how I felt in the weeks leading up and on the way to Brazil. I was very apprehensive about what was…

Welp, I was all geared up for the 5K that I had flew from Vegas to complete.  Little did I know that a 10K was offered for this event and my Uncle said 'True dedication for the cause completes the 10K'.  Bring it on!  Race time: 9am.  My legs were holding up surprisingly well fo…