乘著蒲公英的降落傘

因為這樣的景色，讓我們決定翻山越領

Borrego Spring -- California's Secret Desert

Borrego Springs is an unincorporated community in San Diego County, California. 

20091231 Big Bear Mountain Skiing

It's about 120 miles from LAX (Los Angeles airport).

20090917 Little Tokyo 小東京

The admission of Japanese American National Museum is free every third Thursday, so I visited the museum and little tokyo.

Japanese American National Museum 日美博物館
369 East First Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012

Free admission on every third Tuesday.

Asia:

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Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden
洛衫磯植物園

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Address: 301 N. Baldwin Avenue, Arcadia, California 91007

Home-ma, Trish grew up in Newport beach.

On our way back to LA, we went to Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park.

Vasquez Rocks Natural Area Park is a 905 acre (3 km²) northern Los Angeles County, California USA park acquired by LA County government in the 1970s. It is in the Agua Dulce vicinity between the Antelope Valley and the Santa Clarita Valley just north of Los Angeles and seen easily by motorists driving the Antelope Valley Freeway. Vasquez Rocks have been used innumerable times in motion pictures, various television series and in moving and still photography advertisements, and continue to be used in them today.
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It takes almost two hours from Los Angeles to Antelope Valley California Poppy Reserve.

This is poppy (罌粟)
The Antelope Valley is located in the western Mojave Desert at an elevation ranging from 2600--3000 feet, making it a high desert environment. Until the early 1970's sheep grazed the buttes, but park management has excluded sheep. Pronghorn Antelope grazed long before then, until the railroad of the 1880’s brought recreational hunters in numbers too great for the species to recover.

Most American families have their Christmas decoration, including my homestay.

Two families in the city of Brea cooperated with radio.

Fashion Island

Fashion Island is upscale (高檔) open-air shopping mall.

Fashion Island Christmas tree, the tallest Christmas tree in the U.S.

Lagerstroemia

Japanese house

The Huntington
Address: 1151 Oxford Road, San Marino, CA 91108
Tel: 626-405-2100

Every year before Labor day (September 1), there is a street fair in the city of Orange.
The second year in the U.S., and the second time I came the street fair.

Loukoumades ... in England area.

Cerritos was incorporated on April 24, 1956 as the City of Dairy Vally. The City's original name reflected the agricultural focus of the community. Dairy Valley had 32,000 cows on more than 400 dairies and 106,300 chickens on licensed poultry farms. The cows outnumbered the City's 3,439 residents by nine to one.

1959:The City voted on February 17 to become a California chartered city.

1967:The name change to Cerritos was made official on January 10.

1978:Cerritos dedicated the nation's first solar-heated City Hall complex. (太陽能發電)

 I-5 freeway --> Take exit 28 --> Heat southwest on La Jolla Village Dr. toward Lebon Dr. --> Turn left at Torrey Pines Rd.
You could see a beautiful beach after you take off I-5 freeway.

 When our car approached San Diego county, the scenery became very different from Orange county. 
Our destination was Old Town San Diego.
website:  http://www.oldtownsandiegoguide.com/
Map: http://www.oldtownsandiegoguide.com/pgs/map.pdf

 It costs about ten minutes from Long Beach port to here by driving.

Naples ... it is not just a street. You can see what rich persons' houses and yachts are.

In the early 1900s, Long Beach was world-famous as a visitor destination. Hotels and dance halls, trolleys and roller coasters lured tourists to the City. The mild climate and pristine beaches beckoned people to the water's edge. With daily train service on the Southern Pacific Railroad and seven miles of beach "wide enough to drive twenty teams abreast," Long Beach was called the finest location in southern California for "health, pleasure and profit." Today, as the City reflects on its past, it is actively planning for a sustainable future.

 This was my first time to join an American wedding.

Ross is the nephew of home-ma.
The brochure included the story of how they met each other, Order of Events, Menu, the family, and the persons who involved in the wedding party.

Time passed ~ I have been in the U.S. for one full year.
I had lots of interested experiences but I did not have much time to record.
If one day I will leave California, I believe that I would miss Mexican food.