Childless Summer Adventures 2021 (4/5) – Los Angeles

In this series… San Francisco Carmel-by-the-Sea Seattle Los Angeles East Coast Our final childless weekend in 2021 was spent re-visiting LA. We had been there several times, including two road trips last year during the pandemic. As such, it was not so much a vacation of exploration, but rather a trip to relax and to

Childless Summer Adventures 2021 (2/5) – Carmel-by-the-Sea

In this series… San Francisco Carmel-by-the-Sea Seattle Los Angeles East Coast On our second childless weekend, we took a half-day trip to Monterey and Carmel-by-the-sea.  We jumped into the car earl in the morning, took a nice drive down, had a cup of coffee on the Monterey boardwalk, traversed the 17-mile drive, and strolled through

Childless Summer Adventures 2021 (1/5) – San Francisco

Our epic plans for the 10-year wedding anniversary was forever cancelled like nearly everything else in 2020. What made them possible in the first place, which was Hong’s parents’ willingness to host the kids for a summer, survived. Shortly after the COVID vaccine became widely available, they offered again. With zero hesitation from any participant,

Tournament of Zero – In Search For the Best Sparkling Water

In the years since giving up Coke and other sweet beverages, I learned to increasingly rely on sugar-free sparkling water as a substitute. After exploring a dozen or so different brands and flavors from a variety of grocery stores, all I could say was that some options were much better than others. I began to