Have you ever been driving out of San Diego or LA and noticed those massive sand dunes just off the freeway? Maybe you thought to yourself…”how could I have lived here for so long and never knew about this?”. Or maybe you grew up near them and know everything I’m about to tell you. Either […]
The Brewery Art Walk has been a fixture of the LA art seen since its inception in 1982, and has been growing in popularity ever since. This non-profit live/work space for artists was created out of the industrial site left by the Pabst Blue Ribbon brewing company and is now the largest artist-in-residence community in […]
Once upon a time (about 10 years or so ago) Cypress Park was one of Los Angeles’s most dangerous neighborhoods. It may not have made the national headlines like South Central, but locally it was infamous for its rival street gangs. These days however, outsiders are noticing that Cypress Park sits at a prime geographical […]
Like all cities in the US, the wave of gentrification is changing the landscape of Los Angeles. Once dangerous and run-down parts of town are being transformed into epicenters of the young, hip and ironic. As these young people (often artists, musicians and random hipsters) search for affordable accommodation they are forced to migrate to […]
I’ll try to make this quick and easy since I imagine you’re probably on your way to the trail now or desperately searching for the Murphy Ranch since its not always obvious how to find it. In short, you need to descend to the canyon floor from the Sullivan Fire Road Trail but keep reading […]
Ever since the movie “Into The Wild” came out Slab City has gained quite a lot of popularity. The movie has put this little corner of the southern California desert on the map and into the minds of a global audience. Although Slab City still keeps much of its original “charm”, its now not uncommon […]
Located on the south side of the Los Padres National Forest is the Sespe River Trail. From the trailhead at Piedra Blanca its a 10 mile hike to Willett Springs where you can swim in the hot springs. If you want to go even further its about another 5 miles to Sespe Hot Springs. This […]
Every now and then it will come up in conversation that I’ve spent some time (during my late 20’s) living in a hippie commune. Okay not just one, but two hippie communes. It was never something I planned on doing, but in my desperate attempt to find affordable accommodation in those “fun” and “cool” areas […]
It has been almost a half century since 1967 when the “Summer of Love” exploded in San Francisco’s Haight Ashbury district. It became the epicenter of the counter culture of Hippies, Free Love and lots of illegal drugs. I was in my mid-teens and witnessed the tsunami of “Flower Children” first-hand as they inundated the […]
