We finally arrived after our drive from Santa Barbara to Solvang and this place is like a time warp! The whole village is old-school Danish, complete with windmills, brewing companies, bakeries, toy stores, candles; it’s legit. You can rent bicycles and ride around the streets or go pick up an expensive carved cuckoo clock. I…
We’ve looked around Santa Barbara and now it’s time to head out to the countryside; specifically, the Danish town of Solvang. The trip was like going through a more beautiful version of my home state of Missouri. It even included seeing the first cattle farm we’ve spotted in the entire time we’ve been in California.…
It’s a beautiful morning in Montecito! We’re going to head to Santa Barbara, then explore some of the rest of the surrounding area including Solvang and Ojai, which I’ll put in a later post.
Picking up from Part I of today’s post, we are going from Santa Monica to Santa Barbara, or more specifically, Montecito today with plans to explore the Santa Barbara area tomorrow. Our trip will be coming to an end soon, so we have to make sure to get in as much as we can on…
We’re visiting Rancho Santa Margarita, Newport Coast, Newport Beach, Huntington Beach, Rancho Palos Verdes, Palos Verdes Estates, and much more this afternoon on our way up to the Santa Barbara area. It’s going to be quite a bit of time in the car, but I have my notebook ready and I’ll be taking pictures as…
While in the car over in Anaheim Hills after our drive back from Palm Springs this morning, we decided to double back to Laguna Beach before heading up to Santa Barbara and Montecito. This will give us a chance to rest, walk around the downtown area of the city since we both liked it so…
It’s another beautiful day here in Southern California and we’re going from the desert to the hills back to the beach to rest before beginning the next leg of our journey, which will take us up north. Today, we’ll be leaving Palm Springs, heading through Riverside, Chino, Chino Hills, Yorba Linda, Anaheim Hills, etc., before…
After driving to Palm Springs and Rancho Mirage, we decided to try a highly rated restaurant in Palm Springs called Bill’s Pizza since 1.) we wanted to get out and explore the city, and 2.) we hadn’t eaten hardly anything for 7-8 hours so we were starving. They ranked towards the top of entrants in the international…
After spending a day touring the breathtaking beaches of Southern California from Laguna to La Jolla, and two days going through wine country, we’re heading to the desert (in a rented car rather than on a horse with no name). I’m not really a desert guy. I get that a lot of folks love it,…
We were so surprised by the beautiful topography of Temecula that we added an extra day here to explore the surrounding mountains, look at real estate, and check out the local stores. The city of 100,000 or so people is surrounded by beautiful estates, vineyards, and farms growing citrus and avocado. It’s roughly 1-2 hours…