Blogs from Long Beach, Los Angeles, California, United States, North America - page 9

Advertisement

North America » United States » California » Los Angeles » Long Beach February 14th 2008

The last trip was so successful that I decided the travel life is for me for a bit longer! I came home and was able to visit family and friends and travel to some of my favorite US destinations ("up north", WI and Dubois, WY). Then to be crazy enough to move out of my house, rent it out to a friend, lease out my car to another friend, move into a storage unit, get a PO Box, since I cannot believe I will not have an address!!...and now off again to continue the expedition! I feel I had to do one entry covering the last month and a half....(my USA travels) I had a great Christmas with my family and enjoyed holiday cheer with Lumpy. My family is amazing and I feel lucky and blessed ... read more
My sister, me and the naughty Reichert

North America » United States » California » Los Angeles » Long Beach January 13th 2008

Ok, so this is my travel blog. My eventual goal is to become a full time travel writer. I graduated from UC Irvine’s Literary Journalism program last spring and now I am floating around in Long Beach. I did an unpaid internship for a music magazine in LA and it sort of fizzled out into nothing. I admit, I probably could have been more aggressive about turning it into something more full-time, but I was poor, and stressed, and I thought I could do better, so I quit. Now I’m working full time at UCI and trying to write on the side. We’ll see how it works out. This blog is my first writing project outside of school. The focus of my writing on this blog will consist mainly of my travel experience up to this ... read more

North America » United States » California » Los Angeles » Long Beach November 25th 2007

Nov. 24/ 2007 I was hoping to post this blog while we were cruising … but …. due to the exorbitant $10.00 per 15 minute internet fee ( a little steep for my liking ) on the ship , I decided to wait until we arrived back in LA today to post the whole 8 days of the cruise. Nov. 16 We left LA (actually, San Pedro dock just south of LA ) about noon. The RV was left in the dock parking lot ( at $12.00 / day fee ) so we could just walk onto the ship ….. The Norwegian Star. Well, not exactly “walk” !!! ….. more like … step, wait …..step, wait …. step, wait …. etc. etc. After about an hour of that we got on board, got our “Welcome Photo” ... read more
The mandatory Life Jacket Drill
Important things first !!!
A little snack


Sean and I got our first niece this week! Erika and Andre had a baby in California. Charlotte Grace Binion was born at 11:57pm on June 30th. She weighed 8 1/2 lbs and has a ton of dark hair. We are going out to LA on Thursday to see her before we leave on our trip. I have also added a few more wedding photos. I am trying to learn how to do all of this before we set off.... read more
RECOVERED
RECOVERED
RECOVERED


Well...today was another stressful day in Los Angeles. Now stressful is relative of course....but it was stressful for me! We had a coastguard inspection today which means that we have the coastguard on board and the crew has to run an emergency drill and an abandon ship drill. Luckily since we are relatively new we don't have any duties....we just go to our emergency station and await orders. This consists of sitting in the Versailles restaurant and waiting until the drill is over. Then we have the abandon ship drill where we have to all go out to Deck 7 and put on life jackets. Today we stood around for about 20 minutes in the cold waiting for the coastguard to finish doing his thing. So after all of that was over we had very little ... read more


It's been a few days since I've written anything...lets see, what have I been up to. To be honest, I found myself a bit bored the last 2 days. It's horrible to say because really....my current situation is quite amazing...but I've got to find something to keep myself occupied. I mean you can only go to the gym so many times a day. I only work 3 times every 8 days! I've read a few books already and I'm starting to volunteer to help our around the ship. I'm sure it will take a while to get into a routine and find things to do when we are at sea...of course it's easy to keep busy at the ports:) This week we will be doing the alternate itinerary again.....the word on the street is that it ... read more

North America » United States » California » Los Angeles » Long Beach December 27th 2006

Seasons greetings and Happy Holidays!! As you may have guessed and if you didn't already know, I'm off again on a 2 month round the world trip. I have a 3 month summer break from uni so I figured "Why not?". First stop: Sunny California. I love this place so much. The winter weather reminds me of Brisbane. Christmas day was about 25 degrees. Nights are alot chiller though. I'm here to visit my good friend Marcus, who I orginally meet when travelling in Greece back in the summer of 2002. Since this was my second visit and it's Christmas, the agenda included visiting family and friends, baking cakes and eating and drinking. Let's begin with the cakes....Marcus' family has been baking Christmas cakes for 4 generations (rather cool if you ask me) to give to ... read more

North America » United States » California » Los Angeles » Long Beach December 27th 2006

I've set up a travel blog but I sent the first entry before I'd put in any email addresses. Oops!Definately something I would do. It did let me which in hindsight I think is strange. But anyway, read the last entry and I'll be in touch again soon. M xx... read more

North America » United States » California » Los Angeles » Long Beach December 26th 2006

Santa Catalina Island - 20 miles offshore into the Pacific Ocean from Long Beach, CA. Mileage: ~800 miles RT from home Itinerary: 22 December: drive down 101S towards Long beach. 23 December: to Catalina Island 24 December: Catalina Island 25 December: Back to Long beach; back home. Where is Catalina Island? I did not know anything much about this place. All I knew was I wanted to camp here. And there was a convenient campground close to the city. So, that was my first reservation-Hermit Gulch campground. This was some 1 mile from the city of Avalon. Dec 21st: The usual pre-vacation jitters I had this severe cold/fever attack. So everything slowed down a bit. Tried hard to sleep early. Dec 22nd:Left hom... read more
Main Street, Solvang
Solvang streets
winter in Solvang

North America » United States » California » Los Angeles » Long Beach November 2nd 2006

Our plane was delayed for an hour and a half because one of the engines wasnt working (dont worry though, it was only the auxillary engine used to power the electrics) we made up an hour in flight, and arrived at 3.30 local time. The flight was quite smooth but very boring!! except, when we flew over Las Vegas, which looks awesome. We went straight through customs and collected our hire car, which was supposed to be a small economy class but dad was easily persuaded to upgrade to a chevy 4x4 :D We hit the highway at rush hour, which has to be seen to be believed, but we survived 7 lanes of traffic, and arrived safely at our hotel. We are off for an early night now and we will update our blog tomorrow. ... read more




Tot: 0.16s; Tpl: 0.006s; cc: 10; qc: 90; dbt: 0.1025s; 1; m:domysql w:travelblog (10.17.0.13); sld: 1; ; mem: 1.2mb