Thanks to all our traveling over the last year we were able to earn enough American Airlines miles to bring our entire family on an unexpected trip to Boston to visit Brian’s parents. The kids were very excited because it’s been a long time since they’ve seen their grandpa. We were excited because we know Continue reading
Summer Road Trip 2017 – Day 6
Today is the day we we take our Princess Monterey Whale Watching trip. We are all so excited about this! Why are all dying to see some humpback whales. I’ve been on several of these tours elsewhere, including Maui and have never seen humpback whales. Those that really know me know these are one of Continue reading
Summer Road Trip 2017 – Day 5
Today was Monterey Bay Aquarium Day! Everyone has been so excited for this day to come. We had to wait until today to go because we have tickets, through our Hampton Inn hotel, that give us two consecutive days for the price of one and we had the Tesla factory tour yesterday. We were lucky Continue reading
Summer Road Trip 2017 – Day 4
The road trip definitely continued today. We left the comfort of Monterey Bay and ventured further north today. Now, Brian has gone farther north then he’s ever been in California, by car. Today we finished our free hot breakfast at the Hampton Inn and headed up to Fremont to visit the Tesla factory. Brian has Continue reading
Summer Road Trip 2017 – Day 3
How is it already day three? We have had a ton of fun already and we haven’t even been to the Monterey Bay Aquarium yet. Is that possible? Yes. Here’s how. We woke up this morning and enjoyed a pretty darn awesome “free hot breakfast” at our Hampton Inn. They had everything – cereal, oatmeal, Continue reading
Summer Road Trip 2017 – Day 2
After a good night’s sleep at The Morgan in San Simeon, not to mention a good breakfast, we packed up and checked out. We had to get over to the Hearst Castle for the 9:40 Grand Room Tour. Unfortunately for us, we arrived to see the giant sign out front indicating that the Neptune Pool Continue reading
Summer Road Trip 2017 – Day 1
We decided to kick off this year’s summer vacation with a road trip up the coast. This would be our first big road trip in one of our Teslas which would require several charging stops. For our first charge we stopped in Buellton. It took about an hour to get the charge we needed to Continue reading
Tiki Ti
Brian and I visited Tiki Ti yesterday for the first time – a tiki bar on Sunset Boulevard in Hollywood that was established in 1961. Check out my husband’s Tiki Traveler blog and specifically his post about our visit to Tiki Ti. Mahalo!
LA County Fair 2015
As usual, the LA County Fair always comes around at the hottest time of the year in southern California – the end of summer. This year, it was one of the coolest we’ve had in awhile – it was in the low 90s. This year we came prepared with hats, glasses and a buttload of Continue reading
Happy Belated Birthday, James
The long, holiday weekend was a perfect opportunity to take Uncle James out for a way, way, way overdue birthday dinner. So, later Saturday afternoon we picked up James and headed over to Mastro’s in Beverly Hills, a first for him. I tried to get Violet to pose for a pic with the boys but Continue reading