On my way back from Long Beach today, I got a tad bit lost and ended up outside the Hollywood Forever Cemetery on Santa Monica Blvd. I decided to pop in and do a little treasure hunt for famous graves (to see who I could find). At one point, as I wandered through spongy grass [...]
Archive > July 2010
Laguna Beach
Laguna Beach is every bit a cute California artisan community by the ocean. I arrived just in time for the Saturday market — a Smörgåsbord of organic food, art, oddities, and unique people of all shapes, sizes, colours, and beliefs. After wandering the market I meandered down to the beach to watch a handful of [...]
Disneyland, Anaheim
When you have a little princess, no trip to Southern California is complete until you’ve been to Disneyland. There’s lots of advice out there on how to survive the crowds at Disneyland; and, one of the most prevalent pieces of advice that I’ve seen online is to avoid renting the Disney strollers. However, after spending [...]
Santa Monica
The first stop on our journeys around Southern California was the century old Santa Monica Pier, located at the bottom of Colorado Avenue in Santa Monica and the end of Route 66. For Makenna, this was the place where Lily had her 16th birthday party in the Hannah Montana Movie. So, she danced, she sang, [...]