As a lover of road trips, driving a section of the Pacific Coast Highway California, from Los Angeles to San Francisco, or vice versa, was towards the top of my list. Whilst you can drive between these two cities in just 5.5 hours on the Interstate 1-5, this option bypasses everything...
When planning how to spend 3 days in Los Angeles with teenagers on our California road trip along the coast, Venice Beach and Santa Monica Pier were at the top of our list. As we also wanted to have a Hollywood-focussed day, that just left a third chunk of time to organise. As the...
Think of Los Angeles and you can’t help but think of big budget movies, celebrities, the Oscars, and Hollywood. The movie industry is just part of the fabric of the city, and there is evidence of this all over the city – from the iconic Hollywood sign towering over the city, to stars in...
On our California road trip our kids wanted to bike from Venice to Santa Monica, to visit the famous pier, so we made this the itinerary for our 3rd day in Los Angeles with teenagers. As it was 30 minutes in a taxi from our Hollywood hotel to Venice, then we wanted to spend a good amount...
After three days in Los Angeles with our teenagers, nicely acclimatised to the new time zone and beautiful weather, we were excited to head off on the first section of our California road trip towards San Francisco. The first stretch of our road trip, from Los Angeles up the coast to...
This section of our California road trip route along the coast was one of our favourite days – it offers the opportunity to drive on the beach across extensive sand dunes, look for sea otters in the kelp of Morro Bay, watch Elephant Seals cuddling and fighting on the beach, and to...