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Somehow (Mimi?), somewhere (Twitter?), we got the idea to order english muffins. From California. And so a few of us grouped our cross-country order together to see if…
I feel like I’ve been blogging about this West Coast trip for months! This will be the last California post, I promise. With an extremely early morning flight out…
This post is about North End Caffe, but I’m going to digress for a moment. Encouraged by Leeanne of Fun with Carbs, I fully intended try my first…
Brendan’s reputation often precedes him. To know us, is to know we always have a house guest at Thanksgiving. Every November Brendan comes back to his hometown for…
The day of my cousin’s graduation from UCSD, we were given a free pass. Allowed to skip the ceremony and meet up with everyone else at dinner. I…
June Gloom. The nickname exists for a reason. Like clockwork, each day in California started off quite chilly, with a thick layer of clouds overhead. I called it…
This cocktail interlude it brought to you by way of Darby Kelly. Faced with our only free evening of the whole trip, we looked up the best place…
We initially planned our trip to Southern California to celebrate a few milestones in my father’s family: my grandfather’s 88th birthday (a significant celebration is in order if…
It’s no exaggeration when I say we caught up with a lot of family in California. After seeing my mom’s brother and sister-in-law in Torrance we drove south….
One noteworthy fact about Torrance, CA: both Honda and Toyota have chosen it for their US headquarters. While I mentioned there are a lot of folks from the…