Travel only thirty minutes south of the Los Angeles airport (LAX) to find family-friendly paradise at Terranea (terra-NAY-ah) Oceanfront Resort in Rancho Palos Verdes, CA.
If you get a chance to spend a tranquil weekend with others in your same profession - do it! Since we are all self-employed women, getting together to learn from one another is one of the most benefitting tasks to our businesses. We covered topics from useful social media sharing tools, to avoiding drama, to helping each other overcome individual challenges. A smaller, more intimate retreat like this is so much more rich versus a large conference where you can get lost in the crowd.
- (Me!)
- Megan at Wanna Be A Country Cleaver
- Lauren at Climbing Grier Mountain
- Ashley at Edible Perspective
- Kristin at Iowa Girl Eats
- Liz at The Lemon Bowl
- Amelia at Eating Made Easy
- Lindsay at The Lean Green Bean
Although I missed the first day of the retreat because of delayed flights and didn't arrive until almost 1:00AM, I still managed to wake up with Lindsay and Liz for the 6:00AM Seaside Cycling class at Terranea's Fitness and Wellness Center.
We took a lunch break, but continued our conversations through our meal -- which, by the way, was a gorgeous setting right outside our villa's patio, overlooking the golf course AND oceanfront! Lunch was provided by the Terranea chefs, using locally grown ingredients and some grown right in the Terranea gardens!
In the late afternoon, we enjoyed a cocktail hour with appetizers and fire pit s'mores at Nelson's, a casual Terranea restaurant. Once again, we were overlooking the ocean and enjoyed watching the sunset and whales swimming by!
I'm in love with Terranea and hope to have the chance to visit again -- maybe next time with my family! We may not have an opportunity to travel to an exotic island, but I know we can manage flying to the west coast and experiencing the same paradise at a fraction of the cost. No passport or 10 hour flight necessary. 🙂
Disclosure: I was not compensated for this article. All opinions are my own. A gigantic thank you to our trip sponsors: Travel and food expenses were provided by Nature's Path Organic and Stonyfield. Our beautiful accommodations were hosted by Terranea Resort.
sheila says
Looks like so much fun! I want that giant pretzel right now:D LOL
glad you finally made it and had a great time!
Sheena @ Tea and Biscuits says
The resort looks amazing and it looks like the staff looked after you really well! I'd love to visit there sometime, we've been to California only once but it was such a short visit so we need to go back 🙂
Liz @ The Lemon Bowl says
Ahhh take me back please!! So grateful for our time together friend!!! I can't wait until the next time!