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Lazy Dog Cafe, Cerritos
This is our 300th post ! Thanks for visiting and leaving comments. The adventure continues … For regular folks like us, the time to do shopping is mostly the weekend. But when all of us are shopping at the same time at the same places, the result is crowds and stress which strip away all
Los Angeles according to …
One day while I was in LA, I had a few hours in the afternoon to wander around in Koreatown. And I came across this graffiti-mural of Los Angeles. The five pictures here were taken in sequence from left to right. The artist was looking north presumably from Koreatown, so Santa Monica is on the
Calico Tanks, Red Rock Canyon
At the visitor center, the ranger looked at us and recommended the Calico Tanks trail. The trailhead is about 3-4 miles from the visitor center located near a sandstone quarry. As you can see, the sky was grey. We had blue cloudless sky every day except the day we chose to visit the canyon. So
Red Rock Canyon, 13-mile scenic drive
One reason we did not stay at the strip in Las Vegas is because we want to be closer to nature. Our hotel Red Rock Station (earlier post) takes it name from the Red Rock Canyon national conservation area, which is a small corner of the Mojave Desert. There is a very modern visitor center
