Today, Travelin’ Local welcomes our guest poster, Diane C, whose blog, Sabino Canyon, features the panorama of sights, sounds, wildlife, natural resources, hills, canyons, plants, mountains, and the visually stunning photos from the desert oasis right next to her house. I’m a big fan of hers and if you haven’t yet had a chance to read her sweeping and [...]

Sometimes in Los Angeles, we get to literally be “part of the action” and have a backstage pass for being at the right place at the right time, for just being there. Welcome to Travelin’ Local’s backstage shoot of “The Unit.” Such was the case during my recent foray during my afternoon visit to Macarthur Park. [...]

A couple days ago, I featured some of our local feathered friends that I discovered while visiting Macarthur Park, so today I’d like to share some other interesting photographs that I took while I was at the park. As Diane C. noted, Macarthur Park is also famous for the song named after it, which was first [...]

For this Sunday morning, I’d like to take you to a very old church with an exceptionally large organ, the First Congregational Church of Los Angeles. It’s Los Angeles’ oldest Protestant church in continuous operation, being founded in 1867. Every Thursday at 12:10pm, the church opens its doors for a free 30 minute pipe organ recital. Its [...]

Whoever thought a major metropolitan city like Los Angeles couldn’t have so many different varieties of birds, definitely hasn’t visited Macarthur Park, which is located in the Westlake district. Considering the recent history of Macarthur Park, it has come a long way; it used to be “crime central” in Los Angeles–drug-dealing, shoot-outs and the occasional rumored [...]

With the hint of spring in the air last weekend, I decided to ride a bike trail I’ve had my eye on, the Metro Orange Line Bicycle Path. After having gone through a major clean-up effort, the Orange Line Trail looks great, and rides even better. I didn’t ride the entire trail, but entered it via the [...]

Today’s guest post is by the talented and engaging Lance, whose own blog, the Jungle of Life, has inspired me and others, to accomplish our goals, take a close look at who we are, and in no small part to due his enormous and copious way of providing motivation and inspiration via his writing and [...]

Today, Lisa from Lisa’s Chaos was gracious to extend her warm welcome by allowing me to feature Travelin’ Local from her hometown in Wisconsin. So if you came here expecting to see another great Southern California blog post, you’ve come to the right place, but today you’ll get to check us out over at Macro [...]

As a follow-up to yesterday’s visit to the Paley Center and its thousands of TV titles, I wanted to visit the movies today. Not literally at the movies, or on a movie set, but one particular movie location in downtown Los Angeles. Have you seen Independence Day? It’s definitely one of my favorite movies. Although, I’m not [...]

As I’ve mentioned several times, I’m not a “greenhorn” to Southern California nor am I a native, so I was very excited when a friend of mine suggested that we visit The Museum of Television & Radio (MTR) in Beverly Hills. Its architect, Richard Meir, created a building that lives and breathes on one of [...]

About a month ago, I accepted an invitation to participate in a “local” photo scavenger hunt being hosted by Nicole over at NicoleB Photography. I had so much fun taking all of these pictures—indeed, every time I reached for my camera, the scavenger hunt was in the back of my mind, as I’m trying to bring [...]

Today Liz Strauss was gracious enough to publish my guest post entitled 7 Ways to Check………Is Blogging your Dream? In case you don’t follow Liz, she is the go-to person to help people succeed with their blogs, and promotes the same via her writing, advice, and expertise. Essentially Liz helps people and their blogging passion become [...]