Every year, I head somewhere for my birthday. Or at least try to. It all started in 2009 when I was in Atlanta and working in PR. I took the first trip of my adult life — a two week excursion to Croatia — seven years after my first foray into solo travel, which nettedContinue reading “Peace by the Ocean: Hofsas House”
Category Archives: California
A Weekend at Laguna Beach’s Pacific Edge Hotel
“I had to close the door a little more,” Kyla explains to me our first morning waking up at the Laguna oceanfront hotel, the Pacific Edge Hotel. “It was too loud.” In this case, being too loud is a blissful problem to have since she’s referring to the sound of the Pacific Ocean crashing feetContinue reading “A Weekend at Laguna Beach’s Pacific Edge Hotel”
Let’s Get Lost
“What do you want to do now?” he asks as we stand in the parking lot of the foot massage spa somewhere in the Valley. “I don’t care,” I respond. Because, really, I don’t. All that matters is that I am spending time with my friend in his home. We stand there, in the earlyContinue reading “Let’s Get Lost”
Adventures in Biking from Santa Monica to Venice Beach
It’s a little green monster, that bike in front of me. “Where’s the brake?” I ask, scanning the handlebars for the metal clutch to prevent me from bashing into people, or giving me the ability to slow down. “You back pedal,” the man says, tossing me a look of ‘you’ve got to be kidding me,Continue reading “Adventures in Biking from Santa Monica to Venice Beach”
The Bacon Bloody Mary Love Letter
Dear Bacon Bloody Mary, I had never fathomed such a lovely start to a morning until a recent and gorgeous July Sunday in Napa Valley. “Here,” Kristin had said when we discussed our post-winery breakfast between she, Abby and I. “The Boon Fly Cafe.” She read some reviews, and the three of us were offContinue reading “The Bacon Bloody Mary Love Letter”
Photo Essay: Napa Valley
This wasn’t really one of those take-heaps-and-heaps-of-photos-trips (and no, it’s not because I was all glassy-eyed drunky in Napa … cause I wasn’t … for realsies). But, in case you want more Napa pics, here are favorites from our day of wine tasting, starting with The Golden Gate Bridge: The lush Domaine Chandon: Continue reading “Photo Essay: Napa Valley”
Photo Essay: Chardonnay Lodge
Chardonnay Lodge is many things. One of which is adorable. So adorable, in fact, that I put together a little photo essay of all of its adorable-ness.
Sleeping in Napa Valley
The first time I visited Napa, over President’s Day Weekend in 2008, I became enamored. The lush, green rolling hills. The yellow blossoms of mustard carpeting the ground not occupied by vineyards. The gorgeous and grandeous wineries. The trailer wineries. The Napa area immediately captured me and held my interest well beyond the days IContinue reading “Sleeping in Napa Valley”
Napa, wine and girlfriends
I was raised on Manischewitz, so I like to think it is a miracle I like wine. I remember very well the too sweet, too sugary grape “wine” I used to drink growing up in a (not really) Jewish family … the Friday night Shabbat dinners; the bar/bat mitzvahs; Passover with the four glasses. InContinue reading “Napa, wine and girlfriends”
The San Francisco Foodgasm: Off the Grid
Living in Las Vegas means there are tons of amazing food options. You name it, we’ve got it. Five-star restaurants. Michelin rated. Celeb chefs with numerous outlets across town. But, what we don’t have a lot of is food trucks. Yes, there are some. Las Vegas has, what you could say, a burgeoning street foodContinue reading “The San Francisco Foodgasm: Off the Grid”
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