Manhattan Beach, LA, California

Cooling ocean breezes. Warm, sandy beach walks. We're finally out of the desert and back on the west coast. Arriving after a nearly 7 hour drive from Las Vegas we "checked in" to the Karnowski home - another of Denise's sisters - on Friday afternoon and have set up here for the next week or so. We're less than a mile from the beach and rolling waves of the Pacific Ocean. We went for a bike ride along the strand yesterday enjoying the warm sunshine and extraordinary people-watching.