"Animating Life - The Art and Science of Laika" at the Portland Art Museum (Spring 2018)

We didn't have to walk to far from St. Honore Boulangerie; get to the Portland Art Museum...

The familiar figures for Laika's four movies greeted us in the distance...

Island Brewing Company, Farmer's Market, Robitaille's + Carpinteria Valley Museum of History

Located near the train tracks is a brewery...

which is one of three in Carpinteria...

Portland Day 2 - Return to Movie Madness (formerly known as Mike's Movie Madness)

The morning's events were quite exciting...

and we would later end up watching news coverage later that evening...

Sierra Sacramento Valley Medical History Museum

Located in the eastern section of Sacramento,

was a nondescript building that you wouldn't think twice to look at...

Spring Break Trip 2017 - Day 7 Highlights

This was the building we saw peeking behind our hotel's courtyard...

Today happened to be as, what the teens would call it, "Windy af" (yes, click on those letters to be enlightened)...

Vincent Price Art Museum fail...

On the campus of East Los Angeles College is a museum and art gallery...

named after the great American actor, Vincent Price...

Velveteria for our holiday photo

No trip to LA is complete without a visit here...

one of our favorite musuems, Velveteria.

It's been a year and a half for me...

"Eruptions" at the Broad + free pastry from Corner Bakery

Before heading over to Lunch Part 2, we wanted to walk by the Broad Museum, pronounced "Brode", which rhymes with "Toad", not "Braaaahd".

You may have seen this building before in a recent car commercial...

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MoCA Grand)

TC's choice of venue for the day was the MoCA LA (Museum of Contemporary Art)....

To the left of the MoCA is the Broad, which has long ass lines to get in. Tickets are hard to come by (you have to obtain them a month in advance and only if the dates aren't blocked off) and rather than wait hours (literally) to get in, opted ahead of time to check out the MoCA...

LA Road Trip Day 1 Highlights

I'd been waiting to take another mini road trip and since we had a three day weekend for Veterans Day...well, off we went. Our first stop was off of Red Hill Ave in Tustin. Coffee and pee break. Yes, TMI.

I picked up the latest post-election issue of the OC Weekly, depicting Pepe the Frog as Trump.

We would see more anti-Trump imagery via graffiti and street art in DTLA...

El Presidio de Santa Barbara State Historic Park + a bit of Filipino American history at the Chapel

Across the street from Handlebar Coffee Roasters and Three Pickles Deli is a notable historic landmark..

known as El Presidio de Santa Barbara.

This is separate from the Mission and located in what used to be the old Chinatown of Santa Barbara...

Santa Barbara Museum of Art + Santa Barbara Courthouse & Sunken Garden & even more tiles

Everytime we travel, I ask Bert and TC to write down a few places they want to visit for our travel wish list (places to visit, foods to try, etc).  This way, they have a "say" in the trip. For our second day, this stop was TC's choice...

She was very interested in seeing the Santa Barbara Museum of Art and thanks to the nice musuem worker...

Velveteria revisit + Chinatown storefronts, January 2015

Slowly but surely, I am wrapping up loose ends from earlier this year, such as our first road trip of 2015 in which we did a musuem two-fer in LA. Firstly, the JANM for the Hello Kitty retrospective exhibit..

Secondly, it was the return to one of our favorite museums...

"Hello! Exploring the Supercute World of Hello Kitty" @ the JANM in LA

Our French dip sandwiches from Cole's were quite filling and proved to be the right sustenance to get through the next phase of the day..

which was visiting Little Tokyo's Japanese American National Museum

Return to Chi Chocolate and the Women's Museum of San Diego

Before going to our next museum outing, we passed by Chi Chocolat...

where Bert and I picked up a couple of pieces of chocolate...

San Diego Comic Gallery - Inaugural Exhibit: Kevin Eastman

Last month during our last free Friday of vacation went to check out the newly opened San Diego Comic Art Gallery...

The gallery is the first of its kind in San Diego to focus on the comic book as an art form.

Located in Barracks 3, the gallery's inaugural exhibit featured the work of Kevin Eastman, the creator of the famous Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles...

Crills II & the Morro Bay Skateboard Museum

Picking up where I left off for our Summer Road Trip Day 2 posts from the Central Coast...

We just had a seagull free lunch at Giovanni's Fish Market and Galley and wanted to explore more of this quaint seaside town known as...

The Velveteria is Back!

Last month Bert, TC and I made the very necessary trip up to LA to revisit the newest incarnation of the Velveteria, a musuem of black velvet paintings.

We first met Caren Anderson and her husband Carl Baldwin in 2009 during our Portland trip and were thrilled that they relocated in Los Angeles...

Martial Arts History Museum

While we were still up in the L.A. area, we thought it would be cool to finally see a museum we wanted to see three years ago...

Bert remembered seeing it on W. Magnolia Blvd, one of Burbank's main drags...It wasn't open at the time since it was after hours and we vowed to see it one day during a return visit and that day had come...

"Peace and Love" - The Ringo exhibit @ The Grammy Museum

Now that we had a cool-ass assortment of sodas from Galco's...

we were free to head to downtown L.A. and hopefully avoid blocked off streets due to the World's Largest Concrete Pour...