Cali Life Co. Blog

  • Catalina Island: The Perfect Day Trip Playbook TL;DR: Catalina Island sits about 22 miles off the Southern California coast, and a roughly one-hour ferry from Long Beach, San Pedro, Dana Point, or Newport Beach makes it one of the easiest real island getaways in the country for a single day. ... View Post
  • 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