Cali Life Co. Blog

Festival Sunglasses That Survive the Weekend TL;DR: Festivals are brutal on sunglasses in ways most people do not think about until their pair breaks on day two, direct sun for eight or more hours straight, getting sat on in a backpack, dropped in the grass, sweated through, and passed around... View Post

Wood Grain Sunglasses: Why No Two Pairs Match TL;DR: Wood grain is the visible pattern left behind by how a tree or bamboo stalk actually grew, and because every piece of wood grew slightly differently, no two frames cut from it are identical. That is the entire explanation for why wood grain... View Post

Channel Islands: California's Galapagos TL;DR: Channel Islands National Park protects five islands off the coast near Ventura and Santa Barbara, established in 1980 and often called California's Galapagos because isolation produced species found nowhere else, most famously the island fox. The... View Post