Summer day activities: Southern California, Days 6-7 (22-23 July 2014)

Reversing the norm For a number of reasons we reversed the norm this day, Saturday, and had a quiet morning followed by an active afternoon. Len and I started by lunching at a chain restaurant called Rubio’s, which describes itself as “coastal inspired fresh Mexican food”. We both had salad, mine a very tasty chicken … Read more

Sleepless to Seattle: Seattle, Day 1 (5 July 2017)

We don’t much like morning flights because it’s so hard to sleep when you wouldn’t normally be sleeping. We much prefer the flight, say, out of Los Angeles, when you leave at 10pm or later. You are ready for a sleep then at least (whether or not you do actually sleep). All this is to … Read more