This is probably the most romantic story you have ever heard. My parents met changing bed pans in a nursing home. It was the seventies; most of my friends parents met at Woodstock or Southern California’s famous Venice Beach or one of those other places hippies loved in the seventies. Not my parents. They both …
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 …
The first day of our Eastern Sierras vacation we decided to do a little hike. We had sat in the truck for five hours driving from Southern California and by the time we hit the turn off at Tom’s Place our hiking boots were ready to touch the dirt. …
Earth quakes are just a part of life in Southern California. When you are a four month old kitten and you are chilling in the sunshine on a second story porch they are kind of terrifying. To be fair I also thought the porch was going to break off the fucking house. I have …
There are so many awesome places in Southern California to swim, fish and hike. Lake Perris is not one of them. To get to Lake Perris you drove through a place called the Badlands. Seriously, is this a fucking Stephen King movie? …