California Dreaming: A Totally Awesome Pictorial

Ever wish you could escape from it all?

Run off to Southern California, if only for a day or two.

Take in the sun and the surf and forget all your winter troubles.

That’s exactly what I got to do last week. It was an amazing whirlwind trip as part of my role in TWIN (Toyota Women’s Influencer Network).

We flew into LAX and spent the next two days with our time divided between Toyota Headquarters in Torrance and our hotel in Hermosa Beach, The Beach House at Hermosa Beach. (If by some odd reason you’re traveling to Hermosa Beach, I highly recommend this joint. Service, staff, rooms – everything was exceptional.)

Upon arrival, I snapped a few pics out of my beachfront hotel room and posted it on Instagram. But I really thought posting a single picture wasn’t fair. I really thought I needed to bring you along for the ride.

Please enjoy very few words and some very beautiful pictures from the morning I left California. Yes, sometimes I have to pinch myself and remember this really is my life.

P.S. If you click on the first photo, it will open up a lovely Lightbox gallery to make it easier to view.

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Looking for car photos? I did say that I went out there to visit Toyota, after all. Stop back tomorrow where I’ll have a ridiculous number of car pictures. Some I drove (and I’ll let you know what I thought) and others will take you down memory lane. Until then…