Outdoors / Camping at Mt Madonna

This weekend, some friends and I went camping for one night at Mt Madonna Park in Santa Cruz mountains. The site was really accessible and great for beginner campers which was important because not everyone was ready to get their wild side on. The site was also dog friendly, so we brought Parker and another dog, Ty who despite some head-butting and a sore tummy was still able to have fun hiking with us. A firepit, great weather, good food and good friends made for a pretty positive trip. Given how easy everything was, we'll hopefully have another trip with even more people set up sometime soon. 

London / Holland Park Pt 1

Once again we find ourselves in west London, this time heading towards Holland Park. I normally don't like the 1 series (1 M Coupe being an exception, of course) since I'm not big on the styling, but in this dark grey, I gotta admit it looks pretty good.

Our first American store! Unfortunately, it didn't have much and whatever it did have was either too overpriced or available in other stores. The best place to buy American food is still Chinese grocery stores.

Great cafes and bakeries everywhere you go.

Like Michelle's new haircut? She loves it!

Some nice cars over here, like this RS5.

And some really, really nice cars. Black Bentleys in autumn…

The wheels have seen better days though.  All those leaves must be hiding some nasty curbs, er, I mean "kerbs". 

The park had a pretty fancy entrance.

Did I mention I miss nature? Because I really miss nature.

I will definitely be coming back here again.