Spaced Out In Los Angeles Space Shuttle Endeavour/California Science Center – Los Angeles Everyone gets spaced out living in Los Angeles, so what better way to spend Memorial Day 2013 than head down to the California Science Center to check out the Space Shuttle Endeavour.  I’ve been interested in space […]

Sticky Situation La Brea Tar Pits & Page Museum – Los Angeles I am a native Angeleno, yet at age 59 years and 362 days, I had never visited the La Brea Tar Pits….a fact that stuck with me…until today, that is.  Even worse, I had never even heard about […]

Music Under The Stars The Hollywood Bowl – Hollywood For the better part of the last 40 years, there has been one place in Southern California that draws me back at least once every summer, and it has nothing to do with the beach. The famed Hollywood Bowl is a […]

Light At The Bottom Of The Stairs Point Reyes Lighthouse – Point Reyes Station The odds of a sunny day at Point Reyes Lighthouse along with me climbing up and down 616 stairs without having to use a defibrillator are just about nil. Yet, on the 4th of July, those […]

D-Day Commemorated At A Mall Spirit Of Youth Rising From The Waves – Glendale  If you have ever visited the American Cemetery in Normandy (as we did last autumn), you probably saw the sculpture named Spirit of American Youth. It represents the nearly 10,000 soldiers who gave their lives and […]

Seeing Stars In North Hollywood Academy Of Television Arts & Sciences Hall Of Fame Plaza – North Hollywood Sure, I’ve lived in Southern California for 60 years, but doesn’t mean I’ve seen everything (or even heard of everything).   A few of these places are only a few miles from […]

“The House That Nat Built” Capitol Records Building – Hollywood This is one of the first cool, California buildings that stood out to me as a youngster. The 13-story high Capitol Records Building was constructed and completed in 1956 and was the world’s first circular office building. It was nicknamed […]

Jurassic Park…Just Off The Highway World’s Biggest Dinosaurs If you have ever driven from Los Angeles to the Palm Springs/Indio area in the lower desert, you might have noticed some prehistoric characters (and they’re not the Rolling Stones) lurking just to the north of Interstate 10 in Cabazon. These are […]

Air. Sea. Space. California Academy of Sciences – San Francisco This was going to be the day that Mary, Kim, Tracy and I were to venture from Bodega Bay into “The City” (also known as San Francisco) to see the Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces From the Musée D’Orsay at the […]