there and back again

It seems as if I have been doing a lot of traveling lately. Ukraine, Mexico, Wisconsin, Taiwan, San Francisco, the east coast and bottom half of the U.S., and that's just in the last couple years. I've also spent four years in Connecticut, give or take the summers. When I was trying to come up with a name for my blog, I realized that I'm at a very different place in my life now. I been to all these places, but now I'm back in L.A. for a while. How long that'll be, I don't really know, but I don't have any plans for leaving. As much as I loved going to all these different places, meeting cool people, experiencing seasons... there really is no place like home. One real winter's usually enough to send most southern Californians back home. Falls are pretty, but they pretty much all look the same. New and different food's great, but it's nice to have a real kitchen.

Where I live, I'm 30 minutes from L.A. proper, far enough that I don't have to deal with it unless I want to, but close enough that I can take advantage of it if I so desire. 10-15 minutes away from the beach (I love beaches.), 30 minutes to Universal Studios, 40 minutes to Disneyland :) A little under two hours to Sea World. (I love theme parks.) Arid coastal environment, which means a desert-y coast that isn't too hot or cold or humid. (I'm allergic to humidity. Seriously. Whatever it does to the air, it makes me puff up and sneeze.) 70 degrees year round, plus or minus 15 degrees-ish. Plenty of Apple stores and other gadget-y places. (I love my gadgets.) Plus, we've got huge freeways and no toll roads (just higher taxes, from what I hear...). (I love driving. Most of the time.) (I also love parentheses.) If you've known me for any period of time, you've probably heard this before. Anyway, I'm back. And I've got pictures. Oh, yeah. Stories, too. I'll get around to those eventually. Look for them here. Eventually.