Family Time

Well, well, well, hello there! Hope everyone had a lovely Thanksgiving; ours stretched out into a week of family fun! It’s always so great when my parents come to visit and this trip was no exception. Saturday: Art Party! Jack took the lead on it, so I could...

Tour of California’s Surfing Beaches

Thanks to my dad for sending me this slideshow of Cali’s beachside campgrounds (featuring Encinitas). In the 1930s, surfing’s popularity grew at the same time California’s newly founded State Park Commission was looking for beaches and waterfront property to...

Feet in the Pacific

I would have liked to have posted yesterday, but instead I finished cleaning up and cleaning out our old apartment. No AC in that place anymore, blah! Anyways, as I said, Jack and I took a week-long trip to the West Coast! It was so much fun and was a pretty big deal...