When I arrived in Los Angeles I loved the ability to see rolling hills and beauty rising up into the sky.

Now that I've been here about 2 and a half years, you can take my lessons learned if you want to use the most of your time in Hollywood on where to go and where not to go.

Heisler Park in Laguna Beach, California is a perfect stop along the Pacific Coast Highway. It's a perfect mix of tropical and wild beach. If you want to truly appreciate how beautiful a beach can be, visit it early in the spring, after a rare Southern California dark and cloudy sky. Any beach can look appealing in bright sunshine and blue skies. For the wanderer that seeks raw and wild beauty where ocean touches the land, this is where you go.

I never thought I would be hunting Thomas Dambo's famous giant wooden trolls in a forest, but here I am.

On our trip to Poland, we tried to visit as many of the Seven...