3 days earlier we had spent the afternoon in Santa Monica but due to the weekend crowds we opted against making the trip down to nearby Venice Beach. As we were leaving Los Angeles today, we thought we would take […]
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Road Trip Day 9: Where to see the Hollywood Sign?
Confession: We’ve got a slight obsession with touristy signs. If you read about our first day in Los Angeles, you would have seen photos of the Beverly Hills sign in Beverly Gardens Park and how excited we were to get […]
Road Trip Day 8: MTV Video Music Awards
While we were still in Hawaii, I saw a television commercial for the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards and beamed with excitement due to the fact we were scheduled to be in Los Angeles at the same time. But what […]
Road Trip Day 7: Santa Monica
One of the first things on our to-do list while in Los Angeles was to visit the beaches and being a sunny Saturday afternoon, we thought we would head to Santa Monica for the day. Unfortunately for us, the rest of […]
Road Trip Day 6: Welcome to Los Angeles
After a perfect night’s sleep at The Padre Hotel in Bakersfield, we set off on the 2-hour drive to Los Angeles – our base for the next 4 nights. We knew it wasn’t going to be a leisurely drive to […]
Road Trip Day 5: Relaxation in Bakersfield, California
The first four days of our California Road Trip have been action-packed from a day of activities on Lake Tahoe to checking out a ghost town and hiking in Yosemite National Park. Today, Day 5, was the biggest driving day […]
Road Trip Day 4: Hiking Yosemite National Park
Our accommodation within Yosemite National Park was the tented camp of Curry Village. We booked Curry Village two months in advance as this was the only lodging available to us within the national park. Apparently accommodations with plumbing sell out […]
Road Trip Day 3: Bodie – A California Ghost Town
We reluctantly departed South Lake Tahoe and set off for the next destination on our road trip – the beautiful Yosemite National Park. Because the check-in at our accommodation in Yosemite wasn’t until 5pm, we planned to make a quick […]