Today marks four years of togetherness with my love and one year of (mostly) wedded bliss. This time last year, we were lying in bed in our hotel room, just beginning our honeymoon, taking this photo: This relationship has taught me so much about gratitude. (I even started a gratitude group last year. Join it!) I …
Featured Artist Fridays is a series that presents inspiring interviews with artists from various backgrounds, including photographers, painters, writers, crafters and more. By sharing their stories, dreams and advice, these artists inspire all of us to lead more creative, purposeful lives. This week’s interview features Charlene Swankie, an artist and full-time traveler who has kayaked all of …
After leaving Big Sur, we spent a day wandering around San Francisco. We parked at the Millbrae transit station ($2 parking for the whole day!) and took the train to the Mission district. After checking out a few thrift stores, we picked up some sandwiches and took them to Mission Dolores Park, a great place …
Featured Artist Fridays is a series that presents inspiring interviews with artists from various backgrounds, including photographers, painters, writers, crafters and more. By sharing their stories, dreams and advice, these artists inspire all of us to lead more creative, purposeful lives. This week’s interview features Julia Dolowicz, a Reiki Master, Artist, and Intuitive Counsellor. She creates Soul …
The part of the Pacific Coast Highway that runs from San Simeon (where we saw all the elephant seals) up to the town of Big Sur is all known as the Big Sur area. And it is the most beautiful route I’ve ever been on. Rolling green hills leading to magnificent cliffs rising out of …
I had a Malibu Barbie when I was a kid. She sucked (I preferred Jem dolls) but Malibu most definitely does not suck. Since we were heading up the Pacific Coast Highway, we stopped at Leo Carrillo State Park, which contains one of Malibu’s most famous beaches. Fun Fact: Parts of Point Break, The Karate …
Ah, San Diego. Delicious restaurants, world-class museums, flowers everywhere – it was the best city we’d ever visited. We stayed in a friend’s driveway, just blocks from Balboa Park. If you ever go to San Diego, you MUST go to Balboa Park. It’s a 1,200 acre park with over a dozen museums, gardens, artist’s studios …
I totally forgot to mention in my last post that we visited Chiricahua National Monument on our way to California. It’s about 45 minutes off the Interstate in southern Arizona, but the drive alone is worth it. We passed through beautiful fields full of tall yellow grass waving in the breeze, slowly getting closer and closer to …
After leaving El Paso, we drove through Las Cruces, New Mexico (beautiful town!) on our way to White Sands National Monument, which is about 45 minutes away. It was pretty cool to suddenly see white sand dunes rising out of the rocky, brown “regular” desert. Driving through the area is cool, but the 1-mile hiking …
The stretch of highway between Del Rio and Fort Stockton, Texas has a grand total of two gas stations. And that’s about it. Seriously, it’s like no-man’s land out there. We were lucky that we filled up on gas in Del Rio or we would’ve been stranded on the side of the highway with no …