California Travel Blogs - Page 7

Saturday began as a sad and melancholy day. The day that Rob left for Singapore, the day that my brother, his wife Rachel and my new nephew Santiago left to go back home to Seattle. It was a little lonely, but I remember telling Alice earlier in the week that I would be free this weekend and if she…

I rented a car for the weekend with Christina coming into town. On Saturday, we decided we would either go to Napa or Point Reyes. We elected to goto Point Reyes, the reasoning being that to truly experience Napa, you need to drink wine and this left us with the rationale that only one person would…

  Every trip turns up something that is not planned, or unusual, or just plain weird.  Well our summer vacation trip this year included a few things that fit into that category.  This year we had seven such things.       1. Game Crossing   Being out in midd…

After a lack of sleep from excitement about the trip and nervousness that United Airlines was going to ground more 777's, I couldn't believe the day was already here!  Seems like an eternity from planning this trip, although in reality, it was less than a month in the making!!  Our non-st…

We met up with Adrian,Ian, and Matt right at noon and shortly thereafter, Mark arrived. Surpisingly, everyone looked alive and ready to tackle the day!  As we soon learned, only Brett, Ian, and I were up for the Bloodies!  Ian had never tried a Bloody Mary so he needed…

It comes as no surprise to most that my time here in LA this week would include at least one, probably two trips to Disneyland!  I did not realize that fellow TB, Warren also has a Disneyland annual pass.   The plan was to meet and ride as much as we could in Warren's short window of…

Chris and I have arrived at the Mammoth Mountains early afternoon, the day after Thanksgiving. As we're staying with a friend of his,  we needed to do some light shopping and we headed down Von's supermarket. Wondering down the aisles, he jokingly told me that he just loves grocery shopping a…

We were out in Los Angeles for my wife's 20 year college reunion and met up with four TB members for a great big breakfast at Dinah's. We flew from Indianapolis the night before on a Northwest Airbus 319 and arrived into LAX at about 8:30pm.   Our hotel was the Renaissance at LAX, and wa…

Sunday came, and we dragged ourselves out of bed, and over to my favorite diner in LA • Fred 62’s!! (See my review for details…) After an amazing breakfast and a lot of laughs, most of the group went back to Lindsay’s for some downtime, while I took Margaret and Ingrid for the final stop in…

You just can’t go to San Francisco without going to the Pier 39 area and Boudin’s restaurant for a sourdough bread bowl of clam chowder.  And window shopping is the next favorite thing to do in that area. Well we actually did the Pier 39 thing on Saturday afternoon before the meetup, but …

It's only 5 minutes from my house, but I hadn't been there in probably 5 years. I'm too cheap to pay the lousy 5 bucks to get in... Well, today I sprung for the big $15 for an annual pass so I can go in and out at will! Now all Travbuddies visiting San Diego are invited to ride in with me for …

The American dream. New York, California, road trip, Las Vegas, Grand Canyon, Hawaii..

Woke up under a grey sky. The flags on top of nearby hotels are flapping fiercely. Argh, the weather lady was right. By the time we finished breakfast, it started to rain. The storm is here. Our initial plan for the day was 1) San Francisco MOMA, 2) Lunch at our favorite dim sum place, 3) Driving a…

Since I had slept so much yesterday, I woke up at 3am with a damn headache and didn't manage to go back to sleep. So I found some magazines and read till about 6am, then I finally was tired enough to sleep for a little longer. Slept till 7.30am, but didn't get up till like 9. Found some breakfast a…

Vacation trip...