Santa Monica Travel Blogs

OMG I have been looking forward to the mini then BIGGIE LA MEET UP!!!! The last LA MEET UP was on December 8th 2007. I txted joy about 9am, I knew she was picking up Jeremy and then picking me up at 3pm. I just remembered Jeremy (vulindlela) misses IN-N-OUT burgers. It is a must to have an IN-N…

Just amazing! I am going to meet-up with several new friends that I've met through Travbuddy!Our new friend Lili Ana is coming in from Peru and our other new friend Anita is coming in from Germany, but visiting Seattle as well. We have all discussed getting together in Santa Monica to meet-up with …

Cool meetup, nice people, visitors from afar. Love travbuddy. Lili you are so special you broke my no meetup rule that I set for myself earlier this year!Thanks Eric & Lisa for hanging out!! =)

Joy tells me a few weeks ago that she will be meeting up with a couple TravBuddies.  Do I want to come? My response.....of course I do. A few days later...I hear that we will be meeting up with a few Buddies.  Not bad, I had been wanting to meet up with Joy for a while now, since the OC…

when i found out lili was going to be in california i knew that i would be going there. hahah no question about that. luckily i got friday off from work so that i could see her. on thursday i slept around 1am and i woke up around 4 am on friday so i can get a good start to the day.. the drive to he…

I left work on the westside around 3:30 pm...YIKES already half hour behind schedule and I get my Blue Iguana Margaritas at the Happy Hour prices!  Since I work about 5 miles away from the Santa Monica Pier, I easily made my way through side streets to the city of Santa Monica.  But my jo…

So in the midst of the banking meltdown and right before both Sheila and I are leaving for adjacent states (I'm going to SC this weekend and Sheila is going to the ATL for a week) we joined Doris for dinner at Rustic Canyon. It was featured in the LA times last week and we all thought it would be c…

I was ready to chicken out on going to my first meet-up since I didn't know anyone, but Joy wouldn't let me off the hook. She told me I was going and didn't have a choice. She said I'd have fun, and darn it, she was right!

 I was reading the travel forum at work when it said that there is going to be a mini meet up in Santa Monica on March 28. I contacted pvtjoy (the organizer)to let her know that i was thinking of going, i gave her my contact number and immediately responded to me. She sounded really …

Jenn wanted us to get together before she leaves to hawaii.She came up with this place in Santa Monica called Casa del Mar which is literally located by the beach, it's on Ocean Ave. Great  place to chill and have drinks with friends or even for a happy hour. I love the atmosphere it makes me …

As part of the Twilight Series at the Santa Monica Pier, Victoria Secret sponsored "Pinkapalooza" with the Fallout Boys (Pete Wentz's band, or as my friend explained, Ashlee Simpson's husband's band).  We actually didn't realize who was playing when we got there - we just wanted to have a nice…

when ever i wanted some "me" time i'd grab my pair of flip flops, my beach towel and go to my favorite spot in santa monica beach. Along Montana street and ocean there's a stairway that will lead you down to the beach to just kick back, it's great for just walking, rollerblading or biking plus you …

Living in Vegas I don't get to see the beach very often. Luckily my friend who I was staying with for the weekend, lives only a 15 minute walk from the beach!

So I am back rather early from the meeting in Santa Monica this evening because my husband kevin wasn't feeling well. While at McCool's Irish Pub we had a dinner which was not remarkable, but we got to tell people (some were couchsurfers and others were from another group) about travbuddy.com, Eric…

After all the walking around San Franciso had worn me out I had the opposite on the bus to Los Angeles.  It seemed to be a whole lot of sitting around and watching the world go by.Some drama was had on the way though.  The stretch between San Fran and LA was subject to huge fires and we w…