Nice orange shirt, Uncle Woody! Orange is one of my favorite colors when it comes to shirts. Here we are in Goleta, very near to Santa Barbara, with my great-aunt and -uncle while Tata (Annie) is getting her hair done. Afterward, it was time for breakfast, and my guess would be that we likely ate over at Cajun Kitchen, as that’s our regular morning place during these visits.

Over the course of the day, we likely visited Costco for pizza, a roast chicken that Tata will share with Sophie (the German Shepherd above), and who knows what else as we scoured the store, and she tried talking us into taking stuff back to Arizona.

Spending time with family is always good for more than a few laughs, but taking some John-and-Caroline time to walk along the beach just makes our efforts to get out here all the better.

I likely have shared this elsewhere, but I don’t think my great-aunt and uncle really ever cared about seeing these beautiful sunsets or visiting the beach that was just a couple of miles from their front door. Caroline and I, on the other hand find non-stop romance while out walking in this light.

Standard disclaimer that this post was not written on or near the date it shows up on my blog. This particular sequence of days wasn’t written about until September 2022 as I was trying to better catalog our travel images on this site.