Wherries in North America 2014
A Travel Blog
Those of you who fly the Los Angeles-Sydney Qantas flight with any frequency are probably familiar with the late night departure from LAX. Last time we did this trip, Carolyn was working on the day of the departure, so we headed to LA and explored some areas we hadn’t seen before, like Venice Beach. This … Read more
We were itching to get into the hinterland, which is one of the things we really enjoyed about living in SoCal, so with Carolyn at work and having done our errands the previous day, we decided to drive out to one of our favourite hinterland places here, Joshua Tree National Park. It’s a two-hour drive, … Read more
We are being so well looked after here in Yorba Linda. We came down to have breakfast after Carolyn had left for work – she goes around 6.30am and gets to her school around 7 am – to find Hana working away on her laptop and some macarons on the table. Hana had made them … Read more
As we said in an early post, this blog is a bit different from our last one because catching up with people is an important part of this trip. Today was one of those days, as we – that is, Carolyn, Hana (one of her daughters) and us – were going to meet her son, … Read more
Readers of our previous travel blog know we love a good museum, and while LA County has some wonderful well-known ones – think Getty for example – Orange County also has its share. One such is a favourite of Carolyn’s and one we had visited when we lived here two decades ago, the Bowers Museum. It’s … Read more