I visit the 170,000-pound behemoth of a space shuttle Endeavour at the California Science Center in L.A. There are screaming children. There are annoying tourists. And there are slides. Read more...
I visit the 170,000-pound behemoth of a space shuttle Endeavour at the California Science Center in L.A. There are screaming children. There are annoying tourists. And there are slides. Read more...
I guess you could say I like garlic. I guess you could say I like garlic enough to drive 50 miles to a festival that celebrates it. I guess you could say I like garlic enough to ditch my friends and...
“Just drop me off anywhere in LA,” I tell my friends. “I’ll get by on my own.” It’s Sunday, our last full day in Los Angeles, which has been designated as...
As K drives along the freeway in Los Angeles, I take note of the unusually overcast skies and the notoriously bad traffic. Southern California and Northern California play a constant tug of war over...
How I wanted to hate Beverly Hills I wanted to hate Los Angeles. I really did. It is an expensive place to live and vacation. But, every time I tried to turn my back on it, it caressed me with its...
A friend and I climbed to the top of the Pensacola Lighthouse. Yet, somehow, even this seemingly tame activity took a terrifying turn. First problem: You are not allowed to wear flip-flops. We are...
Take Caltrain into the City. Bust out a beer and some snacks; it’s gonna be a long ride. But don’t worry, you’ll find friends. Get off at the last stop: 4th and King. The city will...
“Maybe we’re pushing our luck,” I tell my friend as we approach The Dock restaurant on Pensacola Beach to rent scooters. By some miracle, we’ve just walked away unscathed from...
It’s a sad fact of life that we appreciate things only when we stand a chance of losing them—and so it is with 360 Pensacola, a Ferris wheel on Pensacola Beach. After about a year of being...
We nearly missed the boat. That just seems to be the way these things go. We had good intentions, even got to the Ferry Building early. Yet, somehow, there we were, sprinting to the dock just seconds...