June was a busy month! SMS was in town for the first weekend and our anniversary. We went on walks, went to South Beach Bar & Grill in […]
Birds / California / Parakeets / Silicon Vallley
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2021 Wrap Up: May
End of Year Wrap-Up, incoming! I wasn’t the best at keeping up-to-date on the blog this year. Understatement! I am going to blame COVID-fatigue. I couldn’t plan or […]
California / Day Trip / San Diego / Sweet Sunshine
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Seven (+1) Bridges Urban Hike, San Diego
As one of the online guides said of this walk, it can be called “walking” or “urban hiking.” Either way, it’s an easy, flat walk through several San […]
California / Parents / San Diego / Sweet Sunshine
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Summer 2020 Catch-Up
If 2020 was a drink, what would it be? Vodka in a water bottle when you were expecting it to be water. Now, this is from a funny […]
California / LA / San Diego
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San Diego Quaren-Queen!
What does a blog that mostly focuses on trip reports and travel do when travel is off-the-table for awhile? Go dark, in this case! But I want to […]
California / Work
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More Mercy
Hello from Restriction of Movement (ROM) status! Since SARS-CoV-2 decided to show up on Day 16 of the mission (boo!), our leaders not only moved quickly to take […]
California
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Mercy, Please!
Hello, from the USNS Mercy! Here are two very different pictures of me but I’m smiling in both, I swear! The left is me eating cake on 4/1, […]
California / Sweet Sunshine
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Catch-Up and Upcoming Trip
Over the years, I have had sporadic breaks when I wasn’t traveling/I was busy/I was lazy/etc. There has never been a month break where so much has happened. […]
California / Day Trip / Friends / Silicon Vallley / Sweet Sunshine
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Weekend Review
After four weekends in a row away from Menlo Park, SMS finally got a break and I travelled North. I took Valentine’s Day off not because it’s a […]
California / LA / SoCal
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The best 48 hours in LA!
Excuse the blatant SEO attempt but I would love to get more blog followers in 2020. Why this year and not, say, several years ago when blogs were […]