My parents recently moved to Southern California to the LA area and are getting settled into their new home in that part of the world. After living in Saudi Arabia and Hawaii, it’s been so much fun over the years to visit them in the various places they’ve lived. Going… 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
Sometimes there are places that just exceed all of your expectations, that blow away everything you were expecting, that you end up loving without you really even foreseeing it happening. Santa Barbara was one of those places for me. To explain more why it’s such a novel thing that I… Read more
On a trip to Southern California for a quick weekend escape, we drove 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 made that drive along the Pacific Coast Highway,… Read more