On the Saturday before Memorial Day, Sam and I drove through central California on our way to Fresno to start our national parks California road trip. We went straight to Clovis to check in but the room wasn’t ready so we backtracked to Sequoia. I didn’t know what I was doing when I booked this […]
The Parent Trip 2017
On Wednesday, March 29th, I picked up my parents at Burbank airport and took them to Quenelle ice cream for a snack on the way home. To their melatonin releasing systems it already felt like 11pm, so there was little more to do at home but swap gifts and head to bed with the promise […]
Hollywood Rainbow
We’re all used to seeing rainbows all the time a little further west in Hollywood (and closer to the ground), but on Saturday after the rain stopped and the sun peeked out a big one arced over Griffith Park. I noticed it while sitting in our home office working on those trip videos. I grabbed […]
Coronado Island & Horses
Friday morning we were off on a little boat to Isla Coronado, the closest of the Loreto islands formed by volcanic rock. We first stopped beside a high cliff on the southeast side of the island. The water was freezing, but I managed to see another stingray sunning itself on the higher rocks before our […]
Bahia de Concepcion
The morning after leaving the lagoon we walked to Rene’s for breakfast before checking out and hitting the road. By 1pm we turned off the 1 at Playa Santispak, a beach we’d seen days earlier on the drive up. As soon as we arrived a man in a pickup truck asked if we wanted a […]
The Lagoon
Our first night at the Lagoon was broken by the camp’s dogs howling at the mountains until 3am. We ate homemade potato cakes with salsa for breakfast while Jorge told us the dogs were barking at coyotes, which come down from the mountains to try and steal food from the camp (and eat birds, I […]
Loreto, the town that Universal Vacation Group built.
On Saturday, January 28th, Sam and I flew to Loreto, Mexico, on the once a day flight from LAX. The pleasant Alaska flight flew between the coast and Catalina Island before crossing the border and flying east over the peninsula. Our seat was over the wing, so getting decent pictures was impossible. (In the photo […]
Banff Vacation Day 10: Numb with excitement.
Waking up early on our last morning in Banff and peeking outside the window drapes I noticed the sky was nearly as clear as on our first night. However, unlike that night, the temperature was the lowest ever. -27 is probably the coldest temperature I’ve ever experienced, and boy did I experience it. I decided […]
Banff Vacation Day 9: Getting Colder.
On our last full day in Banff we were growing weary of the constant chill outside (and Sam was starting to get a cold) so we made a point to just visit local haunts. After visiting the Bow River parking lot we called it a day. Between those things, we visited the only Mexican restaurant in […]
Banff Vacation Day 8: Fire and Ice, Love and Loss.
Another townie day in Banff, we went on the brief (and very windy) tunnel mountain hike. After that, we went up to Banff Viewpoint on Mt. Norquay again. After dark we visited Surprise Corner. Taking photos of the Fairmont proved difficult with wind gusts blowing up from the Bow River. The only way to stabilize […]