A great tip I’ve learned during my travels is always talk about your travel plans with others because you never know what information that person may share. For instance, I was...
Category: California Tags: California, Cold Spring Tavern, mountains, Old Stagecoach Road, San Marcos Pass, Santa Barbara, stagecoach, tavern
It wouldn’t be a Kayla trip without cramming in as many activities as possible in a short time frame. I’ll sleep when I’m dead! Seize the day! You only live once! These cliched...
Category: California Tags: Alamo Square, AT&T Park, baseball, bay, brewery, bridge, cable car, California, Cook's Meadow, Crooked Street, El Capitan, Fisherman's Wharf, forest, Ghirardelli, Golden Gate, Golden Gate Bridge, granite, Half Dome, hike, hiking, ice cream, Lombard, Lombard Street, Merced River, Mist Trail, Muir Woods, Muir Woods National Monument, national park, NoCal, NorCal, Painted Ladies, Pier 39, Presidio, redwood, river, rock, San Fran, San Francisco, seafood, Sentinel Rock, SF, stadium, street car, trees, trolley, Union Square, Vernal Fall, waterfall, Yosemite, Yosemite Falls, Yosemite National Park
Go to Catalina on your birthday. Seriously. It’s like a mecca for birthdays! This year I spent my birthday on Catalina Island and it was probably one of the best birthdays...
Category: California Tags: Avalon, birthday, Catalina, Catalina Express, Catalina Island, ferry, getaway, Santa Catalina, zip line, Zip Line Eco Tour, zip lining, zipline, ziplining
This day was spent at the racetrack! Albeit the slowest race on Earth, but it was a day at the races nonetheless! Alright, I’ll stop speaking in vague terms lol. The sailing, or...
Category: California Tags: California, crater, Death Valley, Death Valley National Park, Furnace Creek, ghost town, mine, mining, moving stones, national park, Nevada, off-road, park, playa, racetrack, Rhyolite, road trip, roadtrip, rocks, sailing stones, stones, The Racetrack, Ubehebe Crater
If you google (that is an official dictionary word now, sorry Yahoo and Bing) “best road trips”, you will be hard pressed to find a list that does not include the...
Category: California Tags: 17 Mile Drive, 17-Mile, beach, Big Sur, Bixby, Bixby Bridge, Carmel, coast, Disney, Disneyland, Highway 1, hike, keyhole, light station, lighthouse, Monterey, ocean, Pacific, Pacific Coast Highway, paddle boarding, paddleboarding, parasailing, Partington Cove, PCH, Pfeiffer, Pfeiffer Big Sur State Park, Pfeiffer Falls, Pfeiffer State Beach, Pismo, Pismo Beach, Point Sur, redwoods, road trip, Route 1, stand up paddleboarding, stand-up, waterfall
If you had asked me six years ago if I enjoyed hiking I probably would’ve given you a “are you serious?” look. Honestly I’m not even sure I went on a legitimate...
Category: California Tags: hike, hiking, Knapp, Knapp's Castle, Los Padres, Los Padres National Forest, Nojoqui, Nojoqui Falls, Nojoqui Falls Park, ruins, Santa Barbara, Santa Ynez, Solvang, waterfall
Snowboarding + a ghost town + Vegas in one vacation…why not! I am a mulit-tasker and overachiever, so when I find myself mere hours away from various adventures I want to...
Category: California Tags: Bear Mountain, Big Bear, Big Bear Lake, Calico, California, ghost town, Las Vegas, Nevada, road trip, Snow Summit, snowboard, snowboarding, Vegas
California, baby! We made it on Tuesday night, Day 6 of our road trip, to Death Valley National Park in California. I’m not sure how many people choose to enter California...
Category: California Tags: California, Death Valley, Death Valley National Park, General Sherman, national park, redwood, road trip, roadtrip, sequoia, Sequoia National Park, Sierra Nevada, west
Last weekend my friend Hillary and I met our friend Caroline in Venice for lunch (at my favorite restaurant, Lemonade) and decided to finally seek out the Venice canals. Since moving...
Category: California Tags: Abbot Kinney, Blvd, California, canals, Italy, Lemonade, Venice, Venice of America
Once called the Riviera of America, Malibu is a beautiful coastal city that consists of a 21-mile strip of winding Pacific coastline. Malibu provides a unique scene to California because it...
Category: California Tags: beach, coast, Malibu, Malibu Pier, pier
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