Waking up at one in the morning with a screaming sore throat is never a fun time. Especially when your day off included plans to hike up a snowy mountain. I would so much rather be out in our snowy alpine forest with the mutt hiking under the trees right now. If I have to …
I live in a forested mountain area that has been plagued by wildfires for the last ten years. The smokey brown skies of wild fire season are not something that I miss about southern California when traveling halfway across the world. After a 10 hour flight from LAX where luckily we did manage to sleep …
Last August under the hot Colorado sun I learned how to make homemade parathas from my Anglo-Indian boyfriend’s mother, an expert at this age-old Indian flatbread. She gave us a quick course on authentic paratha making 101 at our campsite in the gorgeous mountains outside Telluride. This was six months after I visited Karnataka and Bangalore …
I’ve spent a lot of time traveling through Baja, Mexico and I consider myself a condesour of what makes a good taco. Back here in the mountains of southern California I can import some great authentic Baja flavors with the help of one can of smokey adobe chilies. It’s a summer sultry afternoon in the …
Some days I wake up on a cold and blustery 25 degree morning and I am just hitting the trails for a hike as the sun is coming over the horizon. I love sunrise hikes and I love them even more when I just inhaled a healthy and delicious breakfast smoothie while driving to the …