This post was contributed by Lisa Crovo Dion, photos by Dan Dion Melrose Avenue is one of my favorite places in Los Angeles, and Palihotel not only claims an address on this famed strip, but also embodies the Melrose spirit. Dubbed “Melrose Avenue’s first boutique hotel,” this newish (2012) spot has 32 (small) guest rooms […]
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What began as a residential apartment building back in 1929 has morphed into L’Auberge Carmel, a Relais & Chateaux boutique hotel that exudes luxury in Carmel-by-the-Sea. Constructed around an interior courtyard with a babbling fountain in the middle, the 20 room property oozes old world charm with its Mullion and Muntins windows in the front
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Post and photos contributed by Lisa Dion Every year for the past several, our family meets to camp with a posse of others that we’ve known since my daughter Parker was in preschool. We secure the same sites at Butano State Park in Pescadero in a protected bowl of trees down the hill from
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We all met up to create our costumes at about 11:30pm at a friend’s apartment in San Francisco. We were assembling our superhero costumes for the weekend’s bike trip from San Francisco to Santa Cruz: 4 women, 4 superhero costumes, and about 80 miles on Highway 1 in Northern California. After constructing our capes and
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When my cousin and I were searching for a location for our twin fathers’ recent birthday celebration, my dad suggested Coney Island on the banks of the Ohio River, 10 miles east of Cincinnati. This is the amusement park of our childhoods. With its more than 125 year history, Coney Island also enchanted my grandparents in their youth. In the 1920s, Coney
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As a West Coast girl, I’m familiar with the Pacific Crest Trail, I’ve read the book “Wild” written by Oregon author Cheryl Strayed and I watched Hollywood Movie Star Reese Witherspoon walk the trail with her monster backpack in the movie. So it was no surprise to me when Travel Writer Bill Bryson’s book “A
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