Exercise, Run and Play

Venice Beach has a famous beachfront rec center with basketball courts, children play area, handball courts, tennis courts, and volleyball courts. Joggers are commonly seen along the beach and street daily and with group runs on the weekends. We found a parking spot on the street and walked under the arches by the Touch of […]

The Surf

Along the Venice Boardwalk there are lots of things to see and do. However, there is a lot of beach there if you just want to enjoy the sun, water and surf.    

All Sort of Stuff to Do and Buy

Stretching about one and a half mile along the Pacific Ocean, the Venice boardwalk is a large part of what makes Venice unique. We found every sort of t-shirt under the sun, from the politically motivated to sexually charged to the plain old Venice Beach t-shirt. There are tattoo and piercing stores, skate and surf […]

Murals

Los Angeles is one of the world’s capitals for street art. As we drove around there were so many. These are just a few we saw. The mural “Luminaries of Pantheism” is a collection of portraits of many great thinkers, artist and writers. Near Venice Beach Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jim Morrison grace the walls of […]

Multi-million Dollar Houses

Venice Canal Historic District is located between Washington Avenue and Venice Boulevard, just two blocks east of Pacific and is one of Venice’s most affluent neighborhoods. Inspired by Venice, Italy, there are six slim streams with multi-million dollar houses facing the water. The architectural styles range from mid-century modern to storybook cottage, to Roman-inspired villa. […]

Music, Music, Music

Going to a movie at the TCL Chinese Theatre was never on our list of things to do, in fact we did not know they showed movies. When we discovered they were showing LA LA Land it was quickly added. This famous IMAX theatre, has the 5th largest screen and the largest seating capacity (more […]

Back Lot Building

We toured the 13 city blocks on four acres of historic studio lot in the largest set construction project in studio history. Built with creative consultation from Steven Spielberg himself, it is the movie industry’s busiest sets. Among the sets we traveled along these streets: Brownstone Street, Denver Street, Central Park, Courthouse Square, New York […]

Outside Location for a TV Show

We visited the set of a TV show called The Good Place (starring Kristen Bell). The Good Place, is a town where those who have been good throughout their life go to once they have passed away.

Trains and Wands

The Hogwarts Express, in Harry Potter books, travels between the London, King’s Cross Station Platform 9 3/4 and Hogsmeade Station. The Express carried students to and from Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. This Express is at the entrance of The Wizarding World of Harry Potter. We went into Ollivanders, makers of fine wands since […]

Talking Pictures

Harry Potter and the Forbidden Journey was buried deep inside Hogwarts Castle. We traveled through Gryffindor Common Room, which was filled with all the talking paintings. It was hard to listen to the conversation that the paintings were having. We then passed through Dumbledore’s office and got some advice from him. All of this was […]