For those used to long distance hiking the Muir Grove Trail is nothing more than a stroll in the woods. For the rest of us, it can be considered a challenge. Four miles doesn’t sound like such a long way until you start hiking it. Then, as you lumber along a forest floor trail, climbing…
We had decided that on Tuesday, we would stay close to our hotel and do our touring around Long Beach. Shortly before lunchtime, the six of us climbed aboard the Passport bus. This is a free shuttle that will transport you all around Long Beach. Our Queen Mary Hotel is one of its stops. We rode the shuttle to…
After a morning bus tour of Hollywood we headed to the Getty Center. Their website tells you to arrive early since their parking garage often fills. But in mid-January in the middle of the week, we didn’t have any trouble getting a parking spot at lunch time. It costs $15 to park at the Getty but admission…
I don’t remember the first time I visited a zoo. What I do remember is the excited anticipation of seeing wild animals that you were never going to see in the wild. That, and the endless searching, in treetops and at the back of dark, man made caves, behind boulders, and around hidden corners, searching and…
We hadn’t planned to visit here but I’m so glad we did. We were on our way to the San Diego Zoo and stopped at Mission San Juan Capistrano just to have a quick look around. General admission is $9 and it’s possible to take a guided or self guided audio tour. Because we had…
We got up early on a mid-January Sunday morning and left the Queen Mary Hotel heading for a day at Santa Anita Park. Traffic was fairly light- light by L.A. standards, that is. Those of us used to pulling onto a highway on a Sunday morning and seeing long expanses of empty pavement ahead of…
