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Category: Road trips

White Fang Sings Sinatra

White Fang Sings Sinatra

Honestly, you can’t chase an honest moment. Somehow, they just ambush you. And sometimes, as per this singing dog, we’re at the mercy of our quivering moods.

Posted on August 12, 2023August 11, 2023 by chriserskinelaPosted in Family, Gin, Millennials, Parents, Road trips, Uncategorized, weddings, White Fang12 Comments

You Eat One Silly Shoe…

You Eat One Silly Shoe…

The suburbs are full of guys like us -- undersized men with tweed skin and receding hairlines, gazing up at the sky, crying: “Why me, God? Why me?”

Posted on August 9, 2023August 8, 2023 by chriserskinelaPosted in Family, Food, Millennials, Parents, Road trips, Uncategorized, weddings10 Comments

The Boys of Summer

The Boys of Summer

“You’re Taylor Swift,” she explained the other day. “You pressure wash your brain directly into the universe.” Poor universe.

Posted on August 5, 2023August 5, 2023 by chriserskinelaPosted in Family, Food, Gin, Parents, Road trips, weddings17 Comments

A Moody, Untrampled Place

A Moody, Untrampled Place

We may as well be in the Hamptons with Scott and Zelda. By the way, what’s summer without a nymph or two?

Posted on July 12, 2023July 11, 2023 by chriserskinelaPosted in Family, Food, Gin, Road trips, Uncategorized22 Comments

The Bachelorettes

The Bachelorettes

Rapunzel returned from her bachelorette party hoarse and horsey. Sine voce, as the Romans would describe it. She also seemed sensitive to bright lights. Is that a hangover?

Posted on July 1, 2023June 30, 2023 by chriserskinelaPosted in Family, Food, Gin, Millennials, Road trips, Uncategorized, weddings8 Comments

A Treasure on the Sand

A Treasure on the Sand

Think of the flings, the ghosts, the sunsets, the hickeys that hacppened here. By gawd, think of the comebacks, the quips.

Posted on May 27, 2023May 26, 2023 by chriserskinelaPosted in Family, Food, Parents, Road trips, Uncategorized13 Comments

Magic Castles and Brisket

Magic Castles and Brisket

No, I didn’t forget your name. I’m probably just “buffering.”

Posted on May 17, 2023May 16, 2023 by chriserskinelaPosted in Family, Food, Parents, Road trips, Uncategorized17 Comments

In Search of Paradise

In Search of Paradise

I drive past lots of razor wire, which I’m pretty sure is just decorative, past the karate academies, the noodle shops and the “8 Barbers, No Waiting” salon on Beverly … all the things I would truly miss if I went screaming off to Duluth.

Posted on April 19, 2023April 19, 2023 by chriserskinelaPosted in Family, Food, Happy Hour Hiking Club, Road trips, Uncategorized17 Comments

Then This Happened…

Then This Happened…

With food, I prefer wine – red, white, unleaded, defrocked, doesn’t matter. Just so it’s a California wine, which tastes of sunscreen and Vitamin D and surfer girls and cinnamon.

Posted on March 1, 2023February 28, 2023 by chriserskinelaPosted in Family, Food, Gin, Millennials, Parents, Road trips, Uncategorized7 Comments

Health, Vigor and Ebullience

Health, Vigor and Ebullience

Wonder if we’re actually running toward LA’s sun-kissed sense of hope, it’s kismet…and that glorious ocean horizon, which on winter evenings looks smeared with lipstick.

Posted on February 15, 2023February 15, 2023 by chriserskinelaPosted in Family, Food, Millennials, Parents, Road trips, Uncategorized9 Comments

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As his 30-year run at the Los Angeles Times comes to a close, Chris Erskine is making sure the adventures won’t end. He’ll be here to help you laugh, cry and sigh.

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