Residential areas near the beach are densely populated here, but our block is unusually quiet and uncrowded on that scale with no apartment buildings and low traffic. A Walgreens pharmacy/general store is 50 yards away, the wide, sand, Pacific Ocean beach closer than 2 city blocks west, and 3 restaurants lie within a half block. Redondo Pier with stores and restaurants under 1/2 mile north, and a retail village (Riviera Village) about a mile south. The beach stretches almost endlessly with a bike path for miles to the north and beautiful sunsets. Pacific Coast Highway which traces the entire California Coast is just east of us. The Los Angeles area offers a staggering array of things to see and do within an hour's drive: Hollywood, Santa Monica, Disneyland, active and spectator sports, theater, parks, museums; you can fill your schedule or enjoy the beach atmosphere or some of both. Longer ventures open many more options: mountains, deserts, other cities, extreme sports. We've taken guests to spend one night among the giant Sequoia trees of the Sierra Nevada Mtns from our house, and Roy was a regular skydiver at Perris, about 80 miles away, many weekends for 20 years.

We are Roy and Karen, a professional couple (Engineer/Admin and CPA) with 2 kids each that are teens or older and one dog that we would board during an exchange (unless you're open to having the dog stay with you during your stay). Our main hobby other than home projects and parenting (that's not a hobby!) is traveling to explore new places. We travel outside of tax season Feb - Apr and are flexible within our shared parenting schedule. We generally limit vacations to a week or two at a time.