Summer Road Trip 2018 Day 2 - Venice Canals + Boardwalk + street art

Our original plan was to go to the beach in Santa Monica...

but it was the low 60's and overcast, so Plan B it was...

The new House Roots Coffee + a quick stop at THH before heading home

In another strip mall not too far from Ninong's Pastries...

is the new location for House Roots Coffee...

Return to Ninong's Pastries

[Note - Ninong's Pastries has since relocated to Northridge. This post is at their original but now closed Granada Hills location. The current business in this old spot is another Filipino bakery/cafe, "Hopia Like It"]


We are hardly ever in this area...

so we could not pass up another chance to visit this shop...

Carpinteria Day 2 - 8th Street Bridge

We saw a brief mention of this bridge on a "sights to see flyer" somewhere in town...

and I'm a sucker for bridges, so...

Lunch @ Tacos don Roge + dessert from Rainbow Ice Cream

What we really loved about Carpinteria was how close everything was to each other.

You can pretty much walk everywhere here...

Return to Bree'osh, Montecito

There didn't seem to be any stoplights in Montecito...

The main road is a bitch to cross...

Sunset @ Carpinteria Bluffs Nature Preserve

We were on the outer edges of this very preserve earlier this afternoon...

and wanted to catch the few remaining rays of light.

Bree'Osh, Montecito

There was a bakery I wanted to check out in the upscale town north of Carp...

we took a wrong turn and I noticed this vintage sign...

Lunch @ Rincon Brewery, Carpinteria

There were three breweries in Carp...

During the course of our stay, we managed to do two of them...

Carpinteria Summer 2017

We were finally back in Carp...

having been there the previous year...

Beacon Coffee Co., Ventura

Morning on the 101...

heading west on a weekend getaway..

Old Town Calabasas

See this tree?

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

LA Day Trip - First Stop, as always, Cream Pan

A month and a half ago I was able to get tickets to the Broad Museum in Los Angeles...

The tickets themselves are free but you have to order them a month in advance, which was a bit of a hassle. Bert's summer schedule allowed him to have a four day work week, so off we went on a Friday...

Crescent City: Battery Point Lighthouse, The Curly Redwood Lodge & drive by photos

After our brief foray into Brookings, Oregon, we made our way back down to our last city in Northern California...

One more night then we'd head back down.

Before checking into our motel, we drove into the Crescent City Citizens Dock...

Slugs 'n Stones Ice Cream Cones plus Taffy Town Taffy

Right around the corner from The Hungry Clam was this curiously named ice cream shop...

We were up for some dessert after our fried clam meal...

The Oregon Border

After the fun tackiness that was the Trees of Mystery...

we drove onwards to Oregon...

passing through the tree lined highway...

Tour Thru Tree, Klamath

The third and last tourist trap drive through tree was a few miles north of Trinidad...

Up in Klamath, eh.

They called it the "Tour Thru Tree", named to avoid legal problems with the other "Drive Thru" trees. In any case, we were going to make it three for three...

Katy's Smokehouse

After the awesomeness of seeing a massive totem pole in a supermarket parkinglot and deerheads in a barbershop, we headed northward to our next stop...

which was the cute seaside town of Trinidad.

Above is a memorial lighthouse (the real lighthouse was a few minutes away). We were here for lunch actually...

and also to enjoy the views...

The Chandelier Drive Thru Tree, Leggett

I mentioned a few posts ago that there were three drive-thru trees...

This was the second of such trees that we visited...

Shine Drive Thru Tree

Trees, trees. and more trees...

Especially this particular tree that you could drive your car through....