Trips for La Brea Tar Pits

I got up at 4:00 AM this morning, to catch my flight to San Francisco. After ending up in a middle seat cross country and a three hour layover at LAX (I watched half of the movie Sideways after finding a power outlet), the flight from LAX to SFO …

Flight to San Francisco from Australia was uneventful although we experienced quite a bit of turbulence. Arrived around midday (still Saturday) and caught a taxi to our hotel - The Chelsea Motor Inn in the Marina District. We actually had a …

When we finally got to I-405, it was already about 4 pm in the afternoon, and the traffic had already started building up. To save time, we decided to go directly to Venice Beach and checked in at our hotel later. The freeway traffic was so …

Las chicas landed in the sweltering Valley, skipping LAX for the more compact Burbank airport. After relating their ordeal of the overly attentive woman in the seat next to them (and having said woman almost overhear), Micaela and Jessica mentioned …

It felt kinda weird experiencing Sunday morning for a second time. That’s what happens when you cross the international date line! Cleared customs at LAX and boarded the super shuttle. The condition of the 405 freeway was not as good as I expecte …

i had a very awesome day at the AOTP, sun was shining and the sea life was frolicky and mostly cooperative to the cameras. :) holidays and weekends tend to get crowded out here, but there are other things to see if you are a well planning traveler …

We had a great trip down to LA. Not much traffic because we left late. Our checkin at the Miyako hotel went smoothly...not used to the whole Valet Parking though...giving up ur car keys to a stranger...hummm...overall it went smoothly. The …

Vicky and I took advantage of the 3 day weekend to head down to southern California and to be tourists. We went around all of the hot spots around Downtown Los Angeles. Here are the pictures and recap of the trip. You can view the photo set …

Well we survived the plane trip. The kids were OK , they slept a few hours towards the end. The main problem was that they were much more attuned to their biological clock which was telling them that it was afternoon: awake and be active and …

This morning we drove past our old house, my first home. It's only one floor, but we had a palm tree in the front yard! Then we went to our old church, the place I was baptized. The rest of the day we spent at Disneyland! I forgot how much …