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Tag: California Road Trip

Passport to Orange County | Travel | Weekend Getaways from LA

Carlsbad Mini Trip: Recharging in a COVID World

By Mercedes Santana on October 18, 2020
Cliffs at South Carlsbad Beach | Mercedes Santana, PassportsandPapers.com

Or course, all our major plans for 2020 were canceled. Like our June trip to Peru and a family visit to Paris to see Henri’s grandparents. But, what really led us to the beachside town of Carlsbad? A restaurant called Cold Beers and Cheeseburgers. A basic name? Yes, but the burgers are so good! We […]

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Travel | Weekend Getaways from LA

Weekend Getaway to San Diego

By Mercedes Santana on February 12, 2020

Need to plan a quick trip from LA or the OC? Look south to San Diego.

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Passport to Orange County | Travel | Weekend Getaways from LA

Passports and Papers Guide to Orange County

By Mercedes Santana on February 2, 2020

Henri is from Orange County and works there, so we spend a lot of time in the OC. I grew up going to Newport Dunes as a kid so you can say we’re local experts. Since I do spend a lot of time there I thought I would introduce you to a new section of […]

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Travel | Weekend Getaways from LA

Weekend Getaway to Joshua Tree

By Mercedes Santana on May 29, 2019
Joshua Tree; Mercedes Santana of Passports and Papers

Joshua Tree is just a short car ride away, depending on where you are in SoCal. For us in Los Angeles, it’s only about 2 hours away. This desert national park is great for hiking, rock climbing, and star gazing. We don’t rock climb, but it was neat to see other visitors making their way […]

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Cricut Crafts | Lifestyle | Scrapbooking

Past Papers: HWY 1 Road Trip Scrapbook

By Mercedes Santana on February 2, 2019
Highway 1 Road Trip

I finally picked some photos from our summer road trip up Pacific Coast Highway to highlight in this California scrapbook page. The drive up was slightly gloomy, but still breathtaking. Though the sky looked slightly dull in my photos the colors from the ocean and hills were still bright. So I knew that the paper […]

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Travel | Weekend Getaways from LA

On the Road to Monterey

By Mercedes Santana on August 7, 2018

We love to travel and have been to five countries in the last four years while being full-time employees. But, we haven’t taken advantage of what’s right in our backyards. Sometimes we take for granted that we’re SoCal natives and look elsewhere on the map to satisfy our wanderlust. Planning a road trip seems daunting […]

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