Once again it is that time we don the red, white, and blue and get ready for Crestline’s annual hoedown. I have gotten a few emails about this year’s festivities and so I wanted to share with everyone. I hope you get a chance … Continue reading
On our December trip to Solvang, California we took two cars and so on the way back home I snuck out on my own to Ventura, California. Ventura is a beautiful place to visit if you ever get the chance … Continue reading
If you drive far enough along Hwy. 173 you will pass through Cedar Glen. Most people pass it on their way to the back side of Lake Arrowhead. Most people who pass through Cedar Glen will not notice much. Along the highway … Continue reading
The San Bernardino Mountains are mostly famous for it’s winter activities, but if one were to ask me when my favorite season was it would be the Spring and the Summer. The mountain trails are for the most part empty, … Continue reading
I have mentioned in quite a number of my blogs about county fairs. Every county in California has at least one county fair. Some like San Bernardino have two fairs (the San Bernardino Country fair and the National Orange Show). … Continue reading
Groupon has been a good fit for us as a family (and no I don’t get paid to say that). The Pacific Asia Museum in Pasadena is a museum I have heard about before, but before we got the Groupon … Continue reading
So we had just finished visiting the Pacific Museum of Asian Art (more on that in a later post) and we still had a bit of time and wanted to know what to do. So we decided to start walking. Pasadena … Continue reading
If you’re reading this blog post because you think I can help your waist line survive the fair, I will make this post really short: you can’t. If you are reading this post because you want to have some fun, … Continue reading
I grew up in the not so small city of Chula Vista. Translated from Spanish the name means “beautiful view.” So it isn’t so much of a stretch that Chula Vista’s oldest restaurant would be named La Bella, which is Italian for the “the beautiful.” A lot of things have changed in the … Continue reading
I don’t know about normal families, but in my family you often acquire many different names. When I was groing up you couldn’t get by without acquiring at least a half a dozen of them. When you have a last … Continue reading