nod 'n' smile

It’s no secret that traffic in and around the LA area is bad. People in the area have one of the longest commutes in the country and the expansive land mass alone makes for quite the long drive regardless of where you want to go. I’ve been to California many times so I knew this [...]

We just so happened to be in California during the last weekend of the 23-day Orange County Fair, so at the recommendation of a local we decided to stop by for a few hours on Saturday evening. Now when I think about fairs, I recall images from my childhood growing up in Virginia where our [...]

The initial reason that I decided to make a trip to the west coast is because my family was having our first-ever family reunion in Southern California. The reunion itself was actually only a few hours long, but I also spent a few days with some of my closest family members who had also flown [...]

We landed in Los Angeles around 9pm and called our friends to confirm our arrival. As agreed, we’d meet them at Roscoe’s Chicken and Waffles, a famous soul food restaurant, for dinner before heading to their place for the evening. On our way to Roscoe’s, our friends texted “they’re expecting a celebrity, apparently they’re arriving [...]