The Top Gun House in Oceanside + the Oceanside Pier

From Panels we walked a few blocks south...

to check out a house that was featured in "Top Gun"...

Portland Day 3 - Columbia Gorge - Sheperd's Dell + La Tourell Falls + Vista Point and the scenic overlook

Despite the road closure on the Historic Columbia River Highway...

we figured we could see a few of the waterfalls below the road closure...

Portand Day 2 - "March for Our Lives" Portland

The streets in downtown were marked with red circles and X's...

("Unity" mural by Kristen T. Ramirez on SW Morrison St.)

Certain streets downtown were closed because of the event happening this particular day...

Portland Day 1 - Joseph Wood Hill Park at Rocky Butte Park

Our first stop after our breakfast at Elmer's ...

was at this park which sits on top of...

Jim-Denny's, Sacramento

Trying to erase the images of leeches, prosthetic eyeballs as well as the cat and pig fetus from my mind...

We made our way from the Sierra Sacramento Valley Medical Museum" back to downtown...

Angel Food Donuts + another giant donut sign

I'm a sucker for stuff like this.

 I remember texting the photo of the giant donut from afar to Cathy of mmm-yoso. Her immediate reply, "You need to stop there!"

Paintings at Crispy Fried Chicken and Don Chamango + the historic Silverado Ballroom

Sometime last month, I was in the area...

I had to stop because...

Old Town Calabasas

See this tree?

Little did we know that this would be its last month of existence in Old Town Calabasas...

Quick stop at Ports O' Call Village, drive by of the Battleship USS Iowa + heading to Long Beach

Ports O' Call, unbeknowst to us at the time of our visit...

was undergoing a renovation, set to become a food hall with revitalized shops and restaurants...

San Pedro Road Trip Day 2 - Breakfast + the Sports Walk to the Waterfront

We would be leaving San Pedro this morning...

but first, the in-house breakfast at our hotel...

D's bday crawl - G&B + Blue Bottle @ The Bradbury + the Last Bookstore

After our Breakfast Part 1,2 and 3 at the Trifecta in Tustin...

(4th Ave exit from the 101)

we headed into DTLA...

Philippine Expressions Bookshop + First Thursday Art Walk, downtown San Pedro

Next door to Pinta Dos..

was Philippine Expressions bookshop...

Originally based as a mailorder bookshop in Rancho Palos Verdes...

"Disruptions" exhibit at Pinta Dos Gallery, downtown San Pedro

First Thursday for San Pedro's Art Walk was in full swing...

we were here to check out an exhibit at an art gallery in the Arcade, a historic building in downtown San Pedro...

The artist was supposed to be there that evening...

Blue Bottle @ The Bradbury

After Cream Pan, we made our way to DTLA...

with, thankfully, minimum traffic.  We were able to get a spot at an outdoor lot (same as the one we did before) and walk the blocks over to this storied building...

The Bradbury (of "Blade Runner" fame) which now houses LA's newest location of Blue Bottle...

Parks closed, 10K steps achieved and enjoying the sights on Colorado Blvd.

The hills were shrouded by low clouds this morning...

The roads not raging rivers as the night before...

Silver Lake Farmer's Market, Micheltorena Elementary School mural + the defunct Micheltorena Tunnel

These are some of the pix from our LA road trip from Veterans Day.

This is the view from Lucile St. (a hill) looking down to W. Sunset Blvd...

John Marshall High School

The morning was still young. We were planning to take our Christmas photos on a particular painted flight of steps in a different neighborhood. For now, we were still in Los Feliz, having had some really great pastries from Twenty40...

A few minutes away was one of the most filmed high schools ever...

Nick's Cafe

On the edge of LA's Chinatown is an eatery we'd seen during prior road trips...

I remembered the super old signage and the pig in the front...

Return to DTLA

Although we've never been to this shopping outlet, The Citadel, it never fails to amaze me how oddly anachronistic in looks and placement this is...

It looks like something out of ancient Assyria instead of being right next to the 5 freeway in LA.

Traffic was pretty light that whole morning (thank you holiday weekend) but as we approached downtown, the traffic got a little more congested...

El Nuevo Carrito

Next door to Por Vida is a restaurant that used to be called El Carrito...

Since it is under new management, it is now called El Nuevo Carrito Restaurant and is housed in a vintage streetcar complete with a kitchen inside...