A few weeks ago, I attended Alt Summit and lead a group of 21 people on an Instagram Tour of Palm Springs! It was a three hour tour (cue singing) of some of the top Insta-worthy spots in Palm Springs including City Hall, the Women’s Club of Palm Springs, the Moorten Botanical Garden, and, of course, quite more »
After giving a milkshake demo at my Mixbook and Milkshakes event in Palo Alto earlier this month, the Mister and I spent the weekend in San Francisco, exploring some areas we hadn’t visited before including the Camera Obscura at the Cliff House, and the Sutro Bath Ruins. I don’t remember how I learned about the Camera Obscura in more »
If you’re headed to Palm Springs, you must do this Self-Guided Palm Springs Door Tour! Take a drive or bicycle ride through the most colorful neighborhood to see all the beautiful, colorful modern front doors! A preview of the some of the best doors (That Pink Door, Party Lions, etc.) are below along with a more »
Last weekend, the Mister and I took a creative play day on Sunday to visit the Museum of Neon Art in Glendale, California. I had known about the museum for years when it was in a former location and I had been dying to visit MONA once they moved, but you know how it is more »
If you live in Southern California and want to visit flower fields where the blooms are almost certainly guaranteed, then you want to go to The Flower Fields at Carlsbad Ranch to see their rows and rows of colorful ranunculus! Don’t forget to bring your camera to snap some beautiful photos! The Flower Fields at more »
Did you catch my last post about Joshua Tree? I showed off our desert digs at the Airbnb rental Dome in the Desert. It was our home base for our trip’s daily adventures like thrifting/antiquing, dinner at Pappy & Harriet’s in Pioneertown, a drive out to 29 Palms, a sound bath at the Integratron, followed more »
For my birthday last month, we escaped LA for a bit and spent some time relaxing in the California desert. It was a nice couple of days full of Joshua trees, geodesic domes, cake, sound baths, and one giant rock. Our desert digs was an Airbnb stay at the Dome in the Desert, an adorable little renovated geodesic more »
If you caught last week’s blog post on Salvation Mountain and the Salton Sea, you’ll know that I love to go exploring, even if it’s just a single 1-day road trip to somewhere near Los Angeles. So today I’ve rounded up five of my favorite weekend road trips that you can take from Los Angeles. But more »
If you’ve visited my blog before you are probably well aware that the Mister and I love to travel and we especially love road trips! Whether it is a 40-day trip across country and back, or a single day road trip out to the folk art installation of Salvation Mountain and the apocalyptic desert area surrounding more »
Note: A little over 2 years ago I published my first blog post: a Donut Crawl to all of the “Big Donut” donut shops in the Los Angeles area (plus a drive-thru donut), followed up by a blind taste test. The post is now buried in the archives, and thank god because the photos are more »