Family travel: 50 hours in San Francisco

Growing up in New England, I visited my grandparents in the Bay area every summer, and dreamed about moving to California one day. Well, that dream has come true, and we love living in Southern California. But I will always have a fondness for Northern California where I spent so many childhood summers, and we […]

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Family Travel: Joshua Tree National Park

I remember the first time Jason and I visited Joshua Tree. It was in 2010, the year we moved to Southern California.  As we drove through the park full of Joshua trees and boulders, we marvelled at the unique and otherworldly landscape.  We looked at each other and both remarked how this was a place unlike […]

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Must Eat: Smitty’s BBQ, Lockhart, Texas

Update : October 2018.  This is an old post from the DeliciousLA blog, but one of my husband and my favorite travel food memories. So I’m sharing it again. Although it has been 7 years since we’ve eaten here, we still fondly remember this as the best BBQ of our lives. OMG – we had […]

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