Manhattan Beach in Sunny California

Home after two sunny weeks in Manhattan Beach, California, visiting my son, Jake, I miss my long walks on the Strand, tour of the Getty Villa, lunch Izzy’s in Santa Monica with my cousin, Stuart and Joy Pankin (he played the Rabbi on Curb Your Enthusiasm in a scene filmed at Izzy’s), trips to the Los Angeles Museum of Art, La Brea Tar Pits and Page Museum, a day and night at Disneyland and California Adventure, a whale watch from Redondo Beach Pier with my nephew, Ben Serviss, eating at Jerry’s Diner, breakfast at the Local Yolk, and sun, sun and sun.

Every day I strolled for two miles on the Strand’s 27-mile pedestrian and bike pathway stretching along South Bay’s Pacific Ocean from Santa Monica in the north to Torrance Beach in the south, while Jake spent a few days training for the Catalina Island Marathon on March 14 (his fourth year in a row). One Saturday Ben met us in Redondo Beach for a whale watch, to eat and hangout. (Photos by Rachel Rome)