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USA December 2025

Journey to LA and Palm Desert

I’m writing this entry at 6:37 am after a second jet lag night in California. This morning I woke up …

Saturday in Palm Desert

Saturday 13th Woke up early because I haven’t shifted the jet lag from my system yet. Everyone had a very …

Sunday in Palm Desert

Sunday 14th Alex and family return to Seattle today. We all spend the morning lazing around the pool. Greg has …

Monday in Palm Desert

Monday 15 th If you thought yesterday was a lazy time, then knowing Maggi and me you’d expect a lively …

Move on to LA

I have carried on getting up or at least waking up very early due to the residual jet lag. This …

Full day in LA

We had tickets for the Broad Art museum for 11 am. The museum is just across the road from our …

MOCA and then onto San Diego

We started the day by going outside our hotel for breakfast. Here they had a MacDonalds type menu system where …

Whole day in San Diego

The cost of the room at The Granger Hotel included breakfast. My previous experience of free breakfasts at US hotels …

North to Seattle

An early start on Saturday morning to have breakfast, collect the car from valet service, fill up on gas and …