Failure Is A Success! Museum of Failure – Los Angeles, California (Coming to San Francisco’s Fisherman’s Wharf – April 11, 2025) (Below is my report of our 2018 visit to the Museum of Failure in Los Angeles in 2018)  The Edsel? Swedish Fish Oreos? Betamax? Colgate Beef Lasagna?  There are […]

Homes Sweet Homes:  Bungalow Heaven 2017 Home Tour – Pasadena Wow, has it already been a year?  If you love to view the interior of historic homes (and not be arrested for trespassing) while strolling along beautiful tree-lined streets, then the 28th Annual Bungalow Heaven Home Tour on Sunday, April […]

Coming Home! Global Entry (Updated June 2025) – It takes something special for me to wake up at 5 a.m. on a holiday morning, but that’s exactly what Tracy and I did on Labor Day in 2016.  As it turned out, the lack of more holiday sleep was well worth […]

“Cooperstown West” Sports Museum of Los Angeles – Los Angeles Visited:  August 2016 (in October 2016, it was announced that the museum would be closed until they find a new location) Although it is not officially dubbed “Cooperstown West,” the Sports Museum of Los Angeles could, in reality, use that […]

A Look Inside Disneyland’s “Mysterious” Club 33 December 12, 2015 –  For the past few years, Tracy and I have been lucky enough to be invited by my longtime friends Craig and his wife Julie to partake in a Christmas feast at the “mysterious” Club 33 restaurant inside Disneyland.  Yes, […]

Pumpkin Power – RISE Of The Jack O’ Lanterns October 4, 2015 – The thought of spending an evening with a bunch of children looking at Halloween decorations would not usually equate to a fun-filled experience for me, however I made an exception last night when we visited Descanco Gardens […]

Pops Goes The Music – The Pasadena POPS That Is One of the great joys of summer here in Southern California are the warm summer nights under the stars where Tracy and I can enjoy the Pasadena POPS at the Los Angeles County Arboretum and Botanic Garden in Arcadia (a […]