My boyfriend and I have a tradition. Whenever we make it to the top of a peak we have to consume a bag of Trader Joe’s bacon jerky. Maybe its that we are peak bagging a lot lately or maybe we are just jerky addicts but we seem to be consumed with our love of …
This “winter” in Southern California has been pathetic. Just as one example of that was we had to hike eight miles and three thousand feet in altitude again up hill just to find a little snow to make snow shoeing possible. My boyfriend really, really wanted to try out his new Yukon snow shoes so a …
California. The Annual tournament of Roses parade every New Years Day makes it seem like a utopia. Imagine Sunny Los Angeles January first; floats covered in millions of gorgeous roses and expensive horses decked out in liveries finest, pulling decked out carts and wagons down Colorado Boulevard. To anyone trapped inside on an eighty degree California morning by a …
There were a lot of places I hated going as a kid. Chasing my dad through the isles of Home Depot was always a terrible day. If we were at the Home Depot that meant something was broken at home and dad was probably pissed off. When dad was mad he would walk fast and …
My boyfriend is constantly reminding me that I’m a chipmunk and I need to settle down. I have bad news for him; it looks like it’s genetic! Today is my grandmas eighty fifth birthday. Last night she told me a story about how she was crawling up on the kitchen counters so that she could …