On Saturday night Sam was able to snag a room at a hotel for “friends and family” rate through a coworker’s connection. When we got up we went and had a massive American diner style breakfast before heading to the beach to meet with some of the same friends of the day before. Over the […]
Snorkeling La Jolla Cove
On Saturday Sam and I headed down the 5 to La Jolla. We met some friends at the Cove and slipped on our wetsuits. Sam and I headed over to the big cave to the south of the cove. There were a few braying sea lions inside that were perturbed by all the kayakers. People […]
Blue Apron
A few months ago Sam and I did a product review for a friend of ours on her health and wellness blog. The photos were on my flickr back then, but the review has now gone live so I can post about it here. There’s not much I can add to what we wrote in […]
Tied to a sinking ship after the mutiny
On Monday, labor day, I drove up to the northwest valley to check out the damage my latest tenants had left behind. The management company had already warned me that the carpet would need replacing, but I wanted to see for myself. If you’ve ever seen one of those HGTV shows where they open the […]
Shaw’s Cove Part II
On Sunday Sam and I returned to Shaw’s Cove with a few friends. The Sunday before we’d encouraged everyone to come and snorkel in Malibu, but were stuck on the beach because of 10+ foot waves generated by a tropical storm way out in the Pacific Ocean. For the entire week the local news blabbered […]
Snorkeling at Shaw’s Cove
For nearly a month Kent and I had been planning to meet at Shaw’s Cove in Laguna Beach to snorkel. I took the plunge and bought a snorkel set just for this. By the time rolled around we’d convinced four other friends to join us. However, only the men braved the cooler water. We thought […]
Wednesday night hikes
For about two years now I’ve been going on Wednesday night hikes with a rotating group of friends. I usually bring my camera and sometimes snap some sunset shots. Usually we park by the Greek Theater and take the long route to the top of Mt. Hollywood where we’ll drink some wine and eat […]
skydiving
(see if you can spot my cameos in Sam’s video) It was either for a birthday gift or a christmas gift, I don’t remember which at this point, that Sam gave me a skydiving ticket. We originally had to schedule it way out in May, but then minutes before we were going to leave the […]
Downtown Art Walk July
For the first time in about three years Sam and I went to the downtown art walk. We wouldn’t have gone on our own, our friend who is moving to Italy soon had never attended and wanted to experience it before leaving. We didn’t know what to expect since it had been so long […]
R & R
On Sunday night Sam and I walked to the Bowl to see Royksopp and Robyn. Oops, I mean Robyn + Royksopp as the marquee corrected me. Apparently, although I’d only ever seen it advertised as Robyn joining Royksopp, the concert had morphed into a Robyn show with some opening band called Royksopp. As it turns […]