Archive for the ‘TRAVEL’ Category

HELP! I’m going to Paris for a long weekend as a 5th wedding anniversary celebration in 2 days and I didnt plan one thing yet. NOT ONE THING.

(Photo source)

That’s where you come in: Ideas, restaurants, tips, shopping, flea markets… FILL ME IN! I want to know everything. All I’ve done so far is downloaded the Lonely Planet guide on my iPhone.

Im all about packing it in, so I need to hear everything you all have to say about Paris!

OK, shoot!

 

Wondering what to do with a summer rental in Montauk or anywhere? (Montauk is actually on my list for weekend destinations this summer.)

Why dont you do what this dude did, rent a house, put all the original contents into storage and turn it into a “Surf Shack” for your employees to retreat to every weekend.

(Guests often sleep in these tepees!)

From the NYTimes:

Richard Christiansen, founder of Chandelier Creative, a buzzy Manhattan ad agency with a focus on fashion, turned a summer rental in Montauk, N.Y., into a weekend outpost for his staff. He removed the owners’ possessions (photographing, bubble-wrapping and placing each object in storage) and made a surf-themed set: the Chandelier Surf Shack. 

Here is how to have the best summer ever:

Buy all new colorful sheets.

Name your car: This Ford is named  ”Kelly” after, you guessed it, Kelly Bean head Kelly Bensimon.

Take everything you have out of storage and buy more stuff at anthro.

Plant the right stuff so that the honey you grow in your beehives will taste right. 

 Harvest that honey!

Surf!

How CAMPY! Bunk Beds!

Movie Night. 

Sitting on the dock of the bay.

How to have the best summer ever. Period. Its like summer camp for adults!

Read the article and see more photos HERE.

You may or may not have noticed that I have been totally MIA the last few days…. WHY? Well, The fam and I decided to make our way up the California coast, on Highway 1… all the way from Laguna to San Francisco! It was something I always wanted to do and deciding to do it last minute was so exhilarating! Here is  a little photo tour in order from south to north:

Sun dappled street in San Jaun Capistrano.

Surf City, USA- Huntington Beach

Santa Monica

Santa Barbara, view from our room at the Canary Hotel.

 

Turquoise grasscloth and framed ikat and suzanis at the Canary Hotel in Santa Barbara

Hitting the open road in our red convertible(rented!), farmland  and vineyards north of Santa Barbara.

Hearst Castle- the only view we got, the last tour left 20 minutes before we got there… and there was no mention of this on their website!

Elephant Seal Beach. Molting by the side of the road. Literally.

Approaching Big Sur.

Big Sur. The view from the one restaurant/bakery/gas station/general store. Surprisingly super delicious food.

Sunset on the Pacific Coast Highway.

Morning at Carmel.

Horse at the Equestrian Center at Pebble Beach.

Monterey Cannery, site of the famous Monterey Aquarium.

Jellyfish, Monterey Aquarium.

Jellyfish, Monterey Aquarium.

Apple “Campus” Cupertino. (Going there was like me going to Kelly Wearstler’s studio- for my husband!)

The Presidio, San Fransisco

The Presidio, San Francisco.

Golden Gate Bridge.

Now I get why Californian’s are so into Conservation: They have what to preserve! And why so many people out here are into hiking: you are never more than 10 minutes from some kind of mountain.

Also, I dont think if I lived out here I would give a crap about interior design. What’s better than being outside when you live somewhere so beautiful?( I’ve been to the far reaches of the earth and California could be one of the most beautiful places Ive ever been.) I probably wouldnt blog or tweet either… Do you ever get the feeling that everyone else is out living while you are home blogging? Yea? Me too.

 

Dreaming about summer vacations and opening new doors!

 

Photo 2.

I saw these two photos separately and their similarity really struck me. One made me instantly think of the other.

Is it wrong that I now want to go to Morocco? Meaning: the little stunt Bravo and the tourism dept of Morocco pulled  by sending the cast there for 3 episodes actually worked on me?

Wanna know what I do every day now? I look through my photos to find pictures of myself in bathing suits from pre-pregnancy. Its actually not even the body that bothers me anymore, its that MY FACE got so fat.

Its kind of like pressing on a black and blue because you know it will hurt.

This is me taking a hit to the face in a Muay Thai boxing ring  in Thailand in 2003, while backpacking with my brother. I was on the boxing team in college at the time, so I thought Hey- why not- this could be fun?!?! Even though I am getting punched in the face- I love this photo. It makes me smile every time I see it because it is so ridiculous.

What do you do to make yourself feel better and worse at the same time?