My mom recommended this place as well – the Palm Springs Aerial Tramway (I hesitate to include the link since their website makes it look more cheesy than it is, but so it goes). It’s an impressive feat of engineering – basically a cable-driven elevator that goes several thousand feet up a mountain to Mount […]
We saw a couple of things in Pasadena that remind me of my sister. Exhibit 1: a Hello Kitty store which was the pinkest store I have seen in recent memory. Exhibit 2: Fish Dish seafood restaurant. I once heard Kira recite the rhyme, “I wish for a fish on a dish.” Score one point […]
Em wanted to visit this place when we came put here last year, but we didn’t make it then due to some lousy weather at the time. This time, we made it, and Em was primed for it. This attraction is alternately referred to as “The Huntington Library” or “The Huntington Library and Gardens”, or […]
My mom recommended and brought us to this place – The Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden. It was quite a good find. Em got in touch with her green thumb, and I found a bunch of native California flora that reminded me of days gone by. The prickly pear cacti reminded me of the cactus […]
We barely made it out of Rhode Island before another storm cancelled many flights out of the northeast. We had a series of cascading delays and failures, but we were at least able to escape – it just meant spending a lot of time in Washington Dulles airport. I discovered this service animal relief area, […]