So yesterday I was telling you all about my visit to Avila Adobe at Olvera Street. Well, what you may not know (and what I certainly didn’t) is that Olvera Street is part of the El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument (you said a […]
Recently, I went to Olvera Street for only the second time in my life. It may seem shocking to some but I’m not really a fan of the place. While I appreciate the history it’s too much of a tourist trap and between it and […]
So a lot of buzz lately has been floating around the USS Iowa, a battleship that recently docked in San Pedro. See, the USS Iowa is now open as a museum and the crowds are flocking to it. I looked into visiting and found out […]
Well my friends, we’ve come to the end. It’s been a long journey, we’ve seen some great sites, and now it’s time to say good-bye to the Santa Ynez Valley. I can think of no better to town to end our journey in than the […]
You may have noticed that I haven’t blogged since last Wednesday. I have a perfectly good explanation for that. I was on VACATION! Yay! My family and I took a little trip to the Santa Ynez Valley – an agriculturally rich area just north […]
Sometimes you can find pieces of the past in the most random places. I suppose that’s just the nature of history. What was farmland in one era is a city in another. What was rural is now urban. And what was once ranch land is […]