Tag Archives: California
Jun-2014
Smack dab in the middle of the second largest city in the U.S. lays the secret to Chumash Native Americans boat building empire, Tar or brea- in Spanish. Formed tens of thousands of years ago, the tar pits have been bringing people to its shores for years. Some have even become a permanent guest. The […]
May-2014
As the Spanish explored and conquered Alta California they left behind the “El Camino Real” and a series of 21 missions, 4 presidios and 3 pueblos stretching from roughly the Mexican border to just north of San Francisco. La Misión de La Purísima Concepción de la Santísima Virgen María, or more commonly La Purisima Mission, […]
May-2014
About 90 minutes from Downtown Los Angeles, but a world away from the hustle and bustle of the city, is a BIG small zoo. Being parents of two kids we are pretty much zoo connoisseurs and can tell you the bad from the good. A few years ago we took our first trip to the […]
Formed over 25 million years ago, used by local Shoehshone and Tataviam Indians for hundred of years as a mystic place and then by it’s name sake, the infamous Tiburcio Vásquez to elude capture during a statewide man hunt for a series of robbery and murders in the 1870’s. Vasquez Rocks is now known by […]