Tag: California
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Shaver Lake: A Weekend Adventure
Wow! What a great weekend we just had! But also, looking back, what a stressful weekend we just had! The plan was to make the 4 hour drive to Shaver Lake and camp for the weekend at Dorabelle Campground. All of that happened, but it was a bit of a bumpy ride! The Journey We…
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La Mission Nuestra Senora de la Soledad
We visited La Mission Nuestra Senora de la Soledad “The Mission of Our Lady of Solitude” this weekend as part of our return from Santa Barbara. We are working on getting to all 21 California Missions and Soledad made #5. The location was selected primarily to shorten the distance between Missions, it lies between Mission Carmel and…
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Stop In: Pismo Beach
We made two stops in Pismo Beach this weekend and both were fantastic! I’ve definitely added a full weekend in Pismo Beach to my list of trips I want to take. That list just keeps growing. ? Sunset over Pismo Beach Our first stop was Friday night in Spyglass Park. We had been booking it…
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California Missions: Mission San Miguel
We have been listening to a podcast about California history, and Mission San Miguel came highly recommended. So we were excited to make this our 4th Mission visit on our quest to see all 21 California Missions. K was sleeping when we arrived, so we made this a mother-daughter visit while Chris stayed in the car with him.…
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Mission Santa Barbara
We continued our quest to visit all 21 California Missions this weekend and crossed 3 off our list! The first one was Mission Santa Barbara where the I Madonnari XXXI Anniversario festival was taking place. Mission Santa Barbara is the “Queen of the Missions” and its easy to see why as you drive up. The…
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Santa Cruz Island
This post contains affiliate links. We are back from a great long weekend in the Santa Barbara area and our trip to the Channel Island, Santa Cruz Island, was a definite highlight. You can check out my earlier post to see why we chose Santa Cruz Island, but primarily it was the shortest boat ride! We…
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Natural Bridges State Beach (Santa Cruz)
Last week we tried to visit this beach but ended up at Wilder Ranch instead, so this week I double checked the GPS and made sure we made it to Natural Bridges State Beach. We arrived mid-afternoon on a Tuesday and there was plenty of street parking, spots in the 20 minute free lot, and…
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10 California Hotels to Daydream About
Now that we’re on the other side of the country from our parents and favorite babysitters, we’re regretting that we didn’t utilize them more for weekends away! We did spend our 5th anniversary in St. Lucia and we came here for our house hunting trip, but other then that we just did the occasional evening…
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Wilder Ranch State Park
I was itching for some adventures in nature today, so the kids and I set our GPS to Natural Bridge State Beach (or so we thought) and an hour later found ourselves pulling into the Wilder Ranch State Park parking lot. A beach is a beach right? No problem. We paid the $10 parking and…
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Wilder Ranch State Park Spoiler
No real post today, simply because I just wasn’t feeling inspired. The kids and I did dash over to the beach for the afternoon and the inspiration is back! So be excited about tomorrow!
Magnets From Everywhere 