One time it happened to rain while I was in Hollywood and I noticed something really neat: the Hollywood Walk of Fame stars on the boulevard sparkle when they are covered in water. They look like glass. So for the last couple years, each time it rains, I shoot down to Hollywood Blvd and take pictures of as many stars as possible. I organized them into individual map pages for each star.

Then I started visiting all the museums around Hollywood to populate those pages with more movie star stuff. If a museum had an artifact related to a star I took a picture of it and added it to that star's page. For example, Marilyn Monroe has a wax figure at Madame Tussauds, her footprints in concrete at Grauman's Chinese Theatre, and Ripley's Believe it or Not has a piece of the dress she wore in Some Like It Hot! Found out her tombstone was nearby too so a picture of her grave marker even got added. Each page kept getting more and more interesting. There are almost 3,000 stars on the Walk of Fame so it has been a big project! SEARCH FOR A STAR OR VIP HERE: https://www.eatlife.net/stars/

Next we started adding movies to a separate section and linked up all of the movies to all of the stars and VIPs that were in the credits. It's kinda cool to be able to choose a movie to watch based on how many Walk of Fame Stars were in it! SEARCH FOR A CHRISTMAS OR HALLOWEEN MOVIE HERE: https://www.eatlife.net/movies/

Food

If you are a connoisseur there are three growing sections

• Chain Restaurants
  Trying to get a picture of every single menu item at all the notabale restaurants.
• The Keto Diet
  What to order that's low carb from popular places.
• Recipes
  Trying to cook recipes that went viral as well as low carb dishes.
  • Food Labels
  • Kitchen Gadgets

Next time you are thinking about where to go for lunch or what to cook for dinner scroll through some of these pages.

TRAVEL

Landmarks

We've traveled to every city in the country
Whenever a brown Historic Marker ahead sign was spotted we'd stop and see the landmark. Hundreds of them. Sometimes for hours. Sometimes overnight for big ones like Gettysburg or Washington DC.

Research
When posting about a landmark the goal is to try to make the very best, most complete page about that landmark on the internet. It involved reading through each website on the first 10 pages of Google search results, then quote from them if something interesting was found. If your website was referenced somewhere thank you nice job! We always link to everyone quoted by the way, you should be here:

• https://www.eatlife.net/sources/

If you are interested in sights to see, it's a work in progress but there are almost 150 places posted so far.

Knott's Berry Farm

In all those travels Knott's Berry Farm kept somehow comming up

• They have a brick by brick replica of Philadelphia's Independence Hall with the Chamber where the Declaration of Independence was signed.
• There is an exact Replica Liberty Bell there.
• They have scale models of each of the California Missions.
• They built a replica Bird Cage Theatre from Tombstone, Arizona and put on melodramas inside it for forty years. Steve Martin used to work there. Their Calico Ghost Town (named after the Calico Ghost Town in between Los Angeles and Las Vegas) has lots of replica and some actual buildings of the old west. An actual 1879 Schoolhouse from Kansas, a 100 year old Blacksmith building relocated as is from nearby in 1940. They also have a large western museum there full of interesting stuff.
• Those huge roadside Dinosaurs near Palm Springs were sculpted by the guy from Knott's Berry Farm after he retired.
• Every boysenberry in the world can be traced back to Knott's Berry Farm.

Finally went to go check it out and ended up getting an annual pass and trying to photograph everything there over the year. It came out to almost 5000 photos separated into 575 web pages! Got ride videos too!

If you are ever in Southern California with a day to kill go visit Knott's!

DODGERS

Trying to Photograph Everything There
The Knott's Berry Farm section came out so good we tried to do it with another local venue: Dodger Stadium. It was their 60th Anniversary a few years ago and that is when we started taking and sorting pictures into points of interest. We got pics of every concession stand menu and sorted them by level and section number. Every team store, some seat views, took pictures of every trophy in their gallery and added a player page if their name is on a trophy. All memorabilia and artwork and pictures on walls got sorted. Tommy Lasorda is the most popular Dodger represented at the Stadium with Fernando Valenzuela second.

If you're a Dodgers fan there is so much to see; there so much history at that wonderful stadium that's been around since 1962.

Presidential Libraries

Southern California has two Presidential Libraries
Both often have exhibits with some incredible artifacts on display. We are a big fan of the Libraries and visit regularly.

• Richard Nixon Library
  
  • Cold War
  • Vietnam POWs
• Ronald Reagan Library
  
  • FBI
  • WWII

Once the exhibits are gone they are gone! If you weren't in Southern California at the time you missed it. Of course nothing is like seeing the artifacts in person but we posted some photos we took of their past long gone displays. If you ever find yourself in Simi Valley or Yorba Linda pop into one of those libraries you will see some amazing history!

Sports

HOFs and Los Angeles victory parades
While driving through a city you would often think to yourself why does it sound familiar. Cooperstown, New York? Canton, Ohio? Saint Augustine, Florida? Those are Cities that have a Hall of Fame. Baseball Hall of Fame, Football Hall of Fame, Golf Hall of Fame (Golf not added yet, Skateboard Hall of Fame in progress too)

Why So Much Travel?

In an effort to become the best pool player I could, ten years ago I hit the road.
While at it, I tried to take a picture of every single pool hall in the nation. It became a mission and I actually accomplished it! It took a few years, six main trips, each over a month long.

Every Pool Hall in the Nation
I would fly to an area of the country like Seattle, Pittsburgh, New Orleans, New York, and rent a car. Then I would type "Pool Hall" and/or "Billiards" into Google Maps, plan a route for the day, and go take a picture of each place. If they were large or looked cool I would go in and play for a bit. At the end of the day I would get a motel close to the best pool hall in that city and hang out there for the night and sometimes even play for money.

15 Minutes of Fame

Did you ever see that Real Estate Roller Coaster video from 2008? That was us! We ran an investment fundamentals website started in 1999 called speculativebubble. The video was actually hosted on Google Videos back then but here it is on YouTube:

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUldGc06S3U

Or how about Tiger Woods Golf Swing? That was us too! We were once the second largest golf website on the internet called Eat Golf. We had a page for every golf course in the nation, every rule in the rule book, every pro on the tour...

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HV6uiPvbg-8