http://www.kosherroadtrip.com Sun, 04 Nov 2007 20:38:11 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Always bring quarters. On the short list of things to keep in the car for a Sunday road trip, please remember quarters. Besides bottled water, sunscreen, and hats, we also keep quarters. And a small kite. If trunk space permits, please consider a picnic blanket, and ... http://www.kosherroadtrip.com/2007/11/01/the-sands-of-manhattan-beach/ Sometimes a road trip is right under our noses. Or, at least, some place we pass on our way to another destination. Such is the case with the Stagecoach Inn Museum in Newbury Park, CA. Newbury Park, in case you’ve never heard of it, is near Thousand Oaks. ... http://www.kosherroadtrip.com/2007/10/01/the-stagecoach-museum/ Congratulations to Benjamin Krombach for winning the scavenger hunt contest (Jewish Life, June 2007). Benjamin’s prize is a $100 gift certificate to the outstanding Tierra Sur restaurant in sunny Oxnard, California. Housed in the Herzog Winery complex, Tierra Sur is perhaps the finest kosher restaurant on the West ... http://www.kosherroadtrip.com/2007/09/01/how-to-cook-in-the-middle-of-nowhere/ The flavors of the major cities in California are so amazingly different. San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francisco—all unique in appearance. Santa Barbara, only two hours from Los Angeles, showcases not only the appealing variety of architecture in California: Spanish, craftsman, Victorian—but the best of land and sea ... http://www.kosherroadtrip.com/2007/07/01/in-the-green-hills-of-santa-barbara/ One day each year, the “Museums of the Arroyo” in Pasadena host “MOTO Day”, a special day when this network of museums and historic homes is open for free to the public AND free shuttles are provided to transport visitors to all the sights. This year, MOTO Day is ... http://www.kosherroadtrip.com/2007/05/01/sights-around-pasadena%e2%80%94one-day-in-may/ Did you know that Johannesburg and Randsburg are only a few hours drive from Los Angeles? Way out in the dusty desert on the edge of Kern County, gold and silver were discovered in 1895 and, according to legend, the locations were called Johannesburg and Randsburg by men who ... http://www.kosherroadtrip.com/2007/04/01/pesach-in-johannesburg-and-randsburg/ If your little sweeties love science then it will be worth the 45 minutes it takes to get to Santa Ana in order to explore the Discovery Science Center. This is a real hands on, kids oriented center with many different exhibits that require interaction. A tornado, simulated ... http://www.kosherroadtrip.com/2007/03/01/discovery-science-center/ People talk about our amazing proximity to both the beach and the snowy mountains, but how often do we take advantage of that proximity? Some might even ask, why should we take advantage of that proximity? Just look at the Tehillim we read in the weekday Pesukei D’zimrah. In ... http://www.kosherroadtrip.com/2007/01/01/sledding/ When driving through the desert on the way to somewhere else, there’s a tendency to think the desert is a whole bunch of nothing; miles and miles of dried up earth and brownish plants all around. But then, that’s what makes a place like Calico such a curiosity. ... http://www.kosherroadtrip.com/2006/12/01/calico-ghost-town-plus-ice-skating-downtown/ What is autumn without fresh from the orchard apples? When summer is officially over and the weather cools off, the call of crunchy tart apples drifts down from the mountains and beckons city dwellers to enjoy the freshest of fruit. You may recall last year’s Kosher Road Trip to Julian, ... http://www.kosherroadtrip.com/2006/10/01/apples-in-oak-glen/