There some great things that we just don’t have in Australia, here are a few of our favorites. Food and Restaurants: Best Mexican: La Salsa, Santa Monica Best Fish Tacos: Rubios, Las Vegas Best Hamburger: In-n-Out Burger, Los Angeles, Fatburger, Las Vegas Best Breakfast: Ihop, Las Vegas Best Restaurant: Cuvee, Napa Valley * Free refills …
Our last day was full of last minute things to do and places to see. We wanted to get some shopping in so we headed to a shopping centre at Culver City then a trip up to UCLA and a burger for lunch at In-n-Out Burger, from there we checked out of the hotel. The …
A Warner Brothers studio tour was on the agenda today, we booked it the night before and lucky, because most of the tours were already full. The drive to Burbank was a long one due to the traffic in LA as we were traveling in peak hour. The tour started with a short movie of …
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We arrived at our hotel in Goleta, a neighboring city of Santa Barbara, for our next night stay. We were pretty disappointed with the place (it was old, dirty and miles from anything worth seeing), but as it was only for one night we sucked it up and got on with things. We headed into …
Originally we thought of stopping about halfway between Monterey and Santa Barbara, but in the end, we just couldn’t decided on where to stay, so we ended up driving the entire 4 hours. On the way we stopped at Carmel-by-the-Sea, often called simply Carmel. It is a small city in Monterey County, California, founded in …
It was a reasonably short drive from American Canyon down the highway to San Francisco until we hit the Toll booth. The traffic was horrific, but the $6 per car the government charges is a cash cow for them. After we battled the traffic, the drive to the Golden Gate bridge was seamless. It was …
Sonoma is just a short distance from Napa, it is separated by a mountain range and there is stiff competition between both regions. Some of the wineries have setup tasting rooms in a quaint town called Healdsburg, which saves driving between the wineries as the distances between them is quite vast, and also because a …
The Napa Valley is a county located north of the San Francisco Bay Area in the U.S. state of California. Napa Valley is considered one of the best American Viticulture Areas in California, and all of the United States. By the end of the nineteenth century there were more than one hundred and forty wineries …
We had an start to the day, we checked out of the hotel at 7.30 am and went to our usual breakfast restaurant, Ihop. They serve a 2 egg, hash brown, toast and fruit for 7.69 and it’s quite good, however the coffee is ordinary. We have to go to either Starbucks or the Coffee …