Category Archives: Travel

Aliso Creek and Wood Canyon Loop Trail. Moderate, 10.5mi Loop (of course, we didn’t hike the whole trail!) While I’ve been working since the start of the pandemic, Josh and Sammy were mostly in quarantine. Sammy’s school pretty much went into shut down mode. She had only one teacher in Broadcast who held virtual classContinue reading “Braving the COVID World”

Sept 13th – Happy Birtday…thanks for all the opportunities… Nine more days till the end of summer. Unfortunately, the relentless heatwave and the raging fires in the Angeles Mountain (Bobcat Fire) tell us otherwise. It’s been almost a week and the skies have remained shrouded in smoke. On Thursday, I had ashes raining on meContinue reading “Love is HERE to Stay by Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong”

Our visit in 2017

Ahhh! The cool breeze blowing in from the coast. The temperature in the 70s with wind speed in the low teens. This is the first year we’ve been home during a heatwave. Every year, we’ve been able to escape the country and head north to Canada where the weather is cooler. Josh says we pickedContinue reading “Sky HIGH @ Pasea Hotel – HB”

Airbnb has been offering unusual places for rent for quite sometime now. Their unique places range from tiny homes to yurts to castles to boats and more. I’ve yet to check them all out. During a late night search I came across a rental titled: Dome’s Life. The listing posted pictures of modernized and tastefullyContinue reading “A Welcome Return”

https://www.nationalgeographic.org/encyclopedia/yurt/#mongolian-ger Our second excursion since the pandemic was about an hour drive from the house. Up to this point, I thought I knew most of the cities around us. When I started looking for an Airbnb place, I came across a city called Bonsall. Bonsall? I thought – “where in the world is this?” IContinue reading “MONGOLIAN YURT – right in our backyard”

VERY IMPORTANT INFORMATION FOR LONG DISTANCE TRAVELS: Bathroom locations: Panera, Target, and Starbucks. Panera is the cleanest and most reliable. Some Starbucks do not allow use of their bathrooms. TRIGGER WARNING (I was advised to put this by Sammy since the content may trigger some unpleasant emotions) : on day EIGHT, we helped a lostContinue reading “Lost Souls”