Morning In The Mercado Mercado González – Costa Mesa, CA Visited: December 2023 Tracy and I have had Mexico City on our brains since our incredible April 2023 trip, so when Tracy read about the opening of a huge, new Mexican marketplace in Costa Mesa, we took immediate notice. When […]

Light Of Learning! Los Angeles Central Library – Los Angeles Visited: June & September 2023 Seven years ago I was quite blown away by a visit to the library, the Richard J. Riordan Central Library to be exact. Its interior was gorgeous, the exterior was created by one of the […]

Still The Best Museum You’ve Never Heard Of! The Nethercutt Collection – Sylmar Last Visited: March 2023 Who knew that because so many women use a certain cosmetic product line that we would be allowed to visit one of the coolest museums most people don’t even know exists?  Located in […]

Eye-Catching Chicano Art at “The Cheech!” Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture of the Riverside Art Museum – Riverside Visited: December 2022 Tracy and I have been fortunate to have visited some great art museums throughout the years, but we have also visited some duds. We did not […]

Completing The San Gabriel Valley Garden Trifecta Descanso Gardens – La Cañada Flintridge Last Visited: July 2022 Due to the Covid-19 shutdown of museums, restaurants and virtually everything else, I, like most people in the world, became stir crazy. So when gardens started opening back up, we jumped at the […]

“It’s A Beautiful Day For A Ball Game” Dodger Stadium Tour – Los Angeles Visited: April 2022 Although I unwisely became a San Diego Padres fan while in college at San Diego State (please don’t let your children suffer a similar fate), in my younger years I lived and died […]

I Never Met A Park I Didn’t Like! Will Rogers State Historic Park & Ranch – Pacific Palisades (Sadly burned down in 2025 Palisades Fire) Visited: December 2021 It’s hard to believe as a native Angelino, I had never gone to Will Rogers State Park. Truthfully, I had never given […]

A Walk Through Prehistoric Times Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County – Los Angeles Tracy and I were in the mood for dinosaurs (despite Tracy being married to one), and with Jurassic Park being out of the question, we did the next best thing … we hopped in our […]

Going To Market!Historic Original Farmers Market – Los Angeles Visited: March 2021 (Twice) It had been quite some time since Tracy and I had visited the venerable Original Los Angeles Farmers Market, so on a rather chilly March morning we headed out to 3rd & Fairfax to visit this 87-year-old […]