My Family Travels...: California Living...

Welcome! Mabuhay!

...travel is more than the seeing of sights; it is a change that goes on, deep and permanent, in the ideas of living. ~ St. Augustine

Traveling to places near and far is both exciting and enlightening. Travel may be close by, within a region, or globally. Visiting a bordering city or island in where you live could give you a fresh new perspective in life. Though, we don’t really need to go so far out to enjoy ourselves and find beauty, because it is all around us… if you open your eyes, stop and smell the roses... you will get that sense of freedom. However if you are a world traveler, it opens up for a much wider point of view. How I wish someday, I will get to do that. Visiting another country and seeing how other people live and discovering their culture provides us with new understanding that we are all different and unique in our own ways, though we are all human… living and breathing on the same amazing planet, Earth…

Enjoy, travel and live life to the fullest!

Wednesday, May 26, 2010

California Living...

Coming back to America...

After four months of living in the Philippines, here we are back again!

Bandera Restaurant in Corona Del Mar, California

(our old neighborhood)

Fashion Island, Newport Beach, California

(old family weekend hang-out)

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visiting Family & Friends in Southern California...

on our way to the Philippines

@ Tom & Sharon's Home (Bill's friend since high school)

Alayna with her cousins (@ Bill's sister in Huntington Beach, CA)

going away party... thank you guys!

celebrating Father's Day

(Irvine Spectrum)

Gen Kai Japanese Restaurant... one of our favorite resto in CDM

Big Corona Beach, Corona del Mar, California

(one of our old family hang-out :)

Balboa Island

Newport Beach

on a ferry boat ride to Balboa Island

(L-R:) Santa Monica Pier, Pink's in Los Angeles

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1997-2003

California living truly was splendid! Bill and I have such wonderful memories that will stay with us through the years. Bill had lived in the Golden State since birth. Upon landing his first job with Ford Aeronotronics in the 60’s, he bought his first home in Corona del Mar. It was just a sleepy beach town back then. Now, it’s a crowded (though not as crazy as Los Angeles), but gorgeous city on the beautiful Pacific Coast. On October of 1997, I joined him in living there. Our daughter was born in Newport Beach. On 2003, we sold our home and moved to Florida to start another chapter of our life…

Corona del Mar or CdM (Spanish for "Crown of the Sea") is a neighborhood in the affluent city of Newport Beach, California. It is known for its fine beaches, tide pools, Cliffside views and quaint village shops. Beaches in the area include Corona del Mar State Beach as well as Crystal Cove State Park south of Corona del Mar, accessible by paths winding down a steep hillside.

Settled early in the 20th century, the older area of Corona del Mar consists mostly of closely-spaced, free-standing, detached single family houses of varying architecture, concentrated along Pacific Coast Highway (also known as "PCH" ). Newer developments in Harbor View Hills consist of California ranch style houses, many with expansive ocean views.

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