A Travel Blog
We spent a glorious and magical Saturday at the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in LA a couple weekends ago as well as exploring the whole Universal Studios Park and enjoyed it very much! It had been years since we had been (since we were kids) and while the Wizarding… Read more
For years now, Nick and I have had the Wizarding World of Harry Potter in Hollywood on our travel list. And for some reason, it’s just never really seemed to work out. Finally, we spend a weekend there in late January and all our Harry Potter dreams were realized! First,… Read more
Hilton Los Angeles Universal City – Los Angeles, USA 555 Universal Hollywood Dr, Universal City, CA 91608 The Wizarding World of Harry Potter at LA’s Universal City has long been on our wishlist for travel and we finally made it happen this January. I had looked into it many times… Read more
Every year I like to look back at the past year, where I’ve been, what experiences I’ve had, what places made an impact on me. This year we did a lot of travel, both personally and professionally. We traveled near our home and explored some beautiful spots in Oregon, Washington… Read more
Travel is one of those things that each of us does a little differently. We all head to places that fit our lifestyles and personalities, we find hotels that meet our requirements which are all different and we all get to our destinations differently and on different budgets. And… Read more
When we decided on the LA area for our annual Memorial Day weekend trip, we went back and forth between staying in LA proper or spending one night there and another in Santa Barbara. However due to the holiday and timing, it ended up working out better for us to… Read more
Our last day in LA, we wanted to spend some time seeing areas of Los Angeles that we haven’t seen in previous trips, one place of which was Santa Monica. Though I went numerous times as a child, Nick and I have not been there together and we wanted to… Read more
And now onto California… Last weekend we headed down to Southern California for a quick weekend escape and to drive up the coast from LA to Santa Barbara, with stops along the way in Malibu and Ventura. I’d only ever been as far as Malibu and Nick had never… Read more
I hear a lot from people that they just don’t have the time to travel, that they can’t afford to take a week off of work for vacation. And while, I’m of the mind-set that I believe that’s a really important thing to do for our health, I understand the… Read more
Today I’m introducing the first hotel review to add to my Hotel Review Guide collection which you can find on my travel guides page. The first hotel I’m going to begin with is the hotel that sort of kick started this idea: The Hotel Wilshire in Los Angeles, California. … Read more
After spending all day Saturday at Disneyland and California Adventure, we wanted to stay downtown LA so we drove back from the parks Saturday evening to our hotel, the Hotel Wilshire. It was such a cool hotel and I’ll speak more to it in my upcoming new Hotel Guide (stay tuned… Read more