February 28, 2010
Posted by Lauren
For our second day in San Diego, Kyle suggested we explore the Mission Beach boardwalk. Mission Beach itself is a community built on a sandbar between the Pacific Ocean and Mission Bay. The boardwalk runs the length of the sandbar, about three and a half miles. Kyle lent us his truck to [...]
February 22, 2010
Posted by Lauren
Nearly three weeks we’ve been Down Under and not a word about it yet, I know. We’re having a great time, promise! Just a bit more about marvelous California, then we’ll fly across big ocean.
With four whole days left to spend in California, Kirk and I jumped on the Amtrak Pacific Surfliner heading [...]
February 13, 2010
Posted by Lauren
To give you a geographical idea of our travels, we put together a Google map. Click on the blue place marker to read about the stops we made.
We spent two weeks traveling around California seeing old friends and exploring a state that we had previously only flown through on our way to the other [...]
February 12, 2010
Posted by Lauren
It was a lovely Sunday morning, right around 8 o’clock, and Brandon Rau was up and at ‘em. “Come on,” he prodded. We were going winching.
So what is winching? In this case, winching is wakeskating (or wakeboarding) without a boat. The winch pulls the wakeskater a certain distance over water. A [...]
