Wanderers in Wonder

Channeling the spirits of John Muir and Ansel Adams as we made our way through this wondrous valley…Yosemite. Yosemite, in the Native American Miwok language, translates as ‘Those Who Kill”. That is how the Miwok and other Native American tribes of the area referred to the Native Americans who inhabited the Yosemite Valley. John Muir,…

Extending 450 miles from Redding, California (CA) in the north to Bakersfield, CA in the south between the Sierra Nevadas to the east and the Coastal Range to the west, California’s Central Valley provides more than half the fruits, nuts and vegetables consumed by Americans every year. Statue of Festus Hagen beloved bumbling deputy sheriff from Gunsmoke…

There is something to be said for the Settled Life. Our friends in Culver City, Sue and Dan, for whom we are house sitting have such wonderful friends. They and their friends Jody and Dawn invited us to join them for an exquisite evening meal at a wonderful downtown LA restaurant, Bottega Louie. The pizzas were divine. After dinner we…

On a hike through Malibu Canyon… we come upon our favorite sit-com. Walking the Playa del Rey Beach. Perhaps the strangest museum we have ever toured. Some exhibits include The Decaying Dice of Ricky Jay…Micromosaics of Henry Dalton…Dogs of the Soviet Space Program…The Russian Tea Room…Hagop Sandaldjian’s Unique World of Microminiatures – – sculptures made…

We put up with the cloudy, rainy weather. We now have our reward. Peace…Wanderers in Wonder.

We are back to a ‘normal’ life. The LA Times is delivered to the door every morning. The neighborhood is peaceful and walkable. The beach is a fifteen-minute bike ride away. Kind of nice to return to our life of a few years ago. So, we are enjoying the laid-back suburban lifestyle…reading a great deal.…

“When the swallows come back to Capistrano, That’s the day you promised to come back to me, When you whispered, ‘Farewell’, in Capistrano, Twas the day the swallow flew out to sea”.                          Leon Rene Big hit for the Ink Spots in 1940 and…

Marshal South, Aussie Outback born and raised and his wife Tanya, Russian immigrant, New York City raised, married in the mid-1920’s and decided to live a peaceful more spiritual life in the deserts of Southern California. Both Marshal and Tanya were writers who made modest livings selling articles to magazines and newspapers. In 1930 they loaded…

In 1968 he won the presidential election running on a pledge to end the conflict in Vietnam…he expanded the conflict by bombing Laos and Cambodia. In 1968 he won the presidential election running on a ‘Law and Order’ platform…then there was Watergate. In 1968 he won the presidential election running on a pledge to unite…

Dynamic Dinosaur Duo Dennis Avery met Ricardo Breceda in the late 1990’s in Borrego Springs, CA. Dennis was a shop owner, land owner, community mover and shaker and a dinosaur aficionado. Ricardo was a Mexican Immigrant, injured badly in a construction accident in Durango, Mexico, trying to support his family, a welder and a dinosaur aficionado. Dennis saw some…