I’d been checking the conditions forecast throughout the week leading up to a possible Sunday trip to Shaw’s Cove. Conditions went from calm, low wave energy and low surf rating (a zero is optimal) to high energy and a 1 surf rating (not too bad, but could be iffy depending on wave energy). I almost […]
La Jolla 2019
Every summer Sam and I drive to La Jolla. Many times a rotating group of friends joins us. Half the time, leopard sharks join us too. This year, neither of them did. I had read reports of a massive influx of sharks two weeks prior to our trip and got really excited. Then, just a […]
First snorkel of 2019 season
Last Saturday Sam and I rolled out of bed, got in the little blue convertible, and drove to Laguna Beach. We stopped at the Pavillions on the PCH for beach food, as we always do, and then looked for beach parking. Sometimes we luck out and get parking pretty close to the stairs to the […]
Instagram’s unique approach to sharing content
<Sarcasm> Can we just take a moment to recognize Instagram’s superior commitment to helping content creators grow their following? Unlike Facebook, where only my friends see/discover my content, I’m glad Instagram created a tagging architecture that’s completely ignored by their homepage scroll and still only shows followers (Instagram’s version of friends). </Sarcasm> I kid, I […]
Fire in the hills
Although we’ve had the opportunity to watch the July 4th fireworks from our own property for many years now, we have only made the trek up the hiking trail once before. Armed with a better camera I wanted to try again. So, about thirty minutes before the start of the show/s we hiked up the […]
Thailand
On a Friday around midnight, we boarded our 15-hour flight to Hong Kong. After a 90 minute transfer in Hong Kong, we flew another three hours to Suvarnabhumi Airport, where Sam’s sister and brother in law picked us up. They immediately took us to an upscale mall only opened six months ago called Icon Siam. The […]
Oh, Belize! Part II
Our flight from Placencia to Belize City on Wednesday was short, but our next hop to Caye Caulker was even shorter. At 10 minutes, the flight was the shortest we had ever taken. After arrival, we took a golf cart taxi to our hotel and then walked up the beach to the split before watching […]
Oh, Belize! Part I
AKA “You better Belize it,” and “Conch Frittahs!” Early Saturday morning I was off to the Miami airport to meet Sam for our flight to Belize City where we’d take an island hopper to Placencia. After checking in at Placencia we walked up the street for groceries. Returning to our room around 3pm, Sam collapsed […]
A Week in Miami Beach
On Saturday, April 13th, Sam drove me to LAX to begin my first trip to Florida. My flight was delayed, so I had to wait a few extra hours to see what drives Florida Man so crazy. When I got to Miami Beach I met my friends, B and C, who were generous enough to […]
Sacred Valley of the Incas
We drove out of Ollantaytambo and up through the mountains beneath the snowcapped peaks of the Andes. First, we stopped at the Moray Hills, an ancient incan site (although, it’s important to point out that only the Kings were known as “inca” and everyone else was Quechuan, but we’ll keep using that as shorthand for […]