Weird girl wanderings in and out of LA
While I love nature and exploring alone out in the wilds, I have never actually been camping. I have, however, done camp. The Madonna Inn is a well-known hotel in San Luis Obispo in California's central coast with a variety of themed rooms that also features a diner with something of a chalet theme, a …
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Last year during the amazing superbloom California was blessed with I discovered Carrizo Plain National Monument. In December I booked a stay at nearby Blue Sky Center in New Cuyama for April, hoping that we would get enough rain for a repeat performance of endless carpets of yellow, orange, and purple flowers this spring. That …
There are 5 natural tar deposits on the planet and three happen to be in southern/ southernish California. I stopped in on the one on Carpinteria's State Beach on the way through Santa Barbara County a few weeks ago and discovered a small wonder none of my Southern California-native family knew existed despite being very …
Joshua Tree is one of my happy places. A place I can go to when I am feeling lost or down and inevitably leave feeling better. The Cholla Cactus Garden is particularly beautiful and the Jumbo Rocks campground is perfect for climbing on rocks like a kid. When I visited last month I was neither …
A few weeks back I took advantage of a 3 day weekend to drive out to Joshua Tree National Park and explored the area around the park as well, which I have never really done prior. While I kept my adventures to Yucca Valley and Pioneertown, next time I have to stop in Twenty Nine …
Big Horn Mine is an abandoned gold mine from the late 1800s near the Vincent Gap parking lot in Angeles National Forest, a reasonably short drive north of Los Angeles. This is a pretty easy but rewarding hike, whether you hoist yourself up into the mine itself or not. The trailhead listed this as a …
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Oops, I forgot I had a blog. Not really, but I have been incredibly lazy this month. I guess one can't climb rocks all the time when there are bills to pay. But let's go back to last month when I did! Alabama Hills is a sprawling area full of interesting rock formations a short …
