LA Livin'

We're loving life in LA...and missing friends and family like crazy! This is normally a travel blog but..since so many people we love are far away now, we'll try to keep you up to date on our life here a bit too. So, without further ado, life in LA from the iPhone:

Surfing when the Millers were in town

dinner outside

Evening cruise

Sunset stroll

Steven & Matt. Margarita buds

art walk/food truck mania on Abbott Kinney

Getty Museum

Wine from the Turkey trip with Ash & Steven

Santa Monica Pier & beach time with A&S

we miss these little guys so much! They sent a cute happy birthday message for Matt

Strolling Marina Del Rey

so SoCal

Huntington Beach

Corona Del Mar

'I had to much to dream last night' surf movie premier and Deus Ex Machina custom motorcycle shop

Koreatown outing. Delicious

Silverlake explorations 

Runyon Canyon 'city-hike'

No TV = watching Brasil at the local bar @ 9am on Saturday

sunning out front

Little Ethiopia outing

 and a b-day dinner for Matthew at LA Farm

Wild Coast Part 2: Surfing, Whales & the beach

Day three we set off relatively early and had 14km to go to get back to Cinsta, where we had left the majority of our belongings before driving north to the start of our hike. There were a few small river crossings, but nothing like what we would have experienced during the rainy summer months, and the rest of the day was literally walking down one continuous sandy beach.

Strandloper Trail

river fording

Back at Cinsta we were staying in a ‘safari tent’ – basically a glorified tent with a bed, beside table, lamp, and a killer view from the platform. Showers, food, and a few hours of reading on the deck sufficiently revived us to head back down to the beach. We rented a surfboard, boogie board, and two wetsuits and took turns trying our luck. It’d been years since I’d surfed but I was pretty inspired by my short stint and am stoked to spend some more time at it this fall. While we were taking turns in the waves, Steven spotted something in the water waaaay across the bay that looked as tall as a building, and like a tail. It continued closer to us, seeming to bob upside down. The tail was all we ever saw but it would stay visible for 5 minutes at a time, and was unbelievably huge. We later learned it was a Southern Right Whale, and that that’s normal behavior. It was quite the show.

Safari tent

hang 10

Southern Right Whale

view from the safari tent

Cinsta 

sunrise before we head to the airport