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Don Bauder 9:40 p.m., May 21
California news, stories & travel reviews
Unexpected L.A.
With time to kill, the City of Angels reveals a couple surprises.
It’s amazing how one person on a business trip in Los Angeles can have a really cool adventure for three bucks. I wish my husband and kids could have been here – it would've been ...
Escape to Muir Beach
This easy SF getaway offers redwoods and great coastal hikes.
The quiet shoreline of Muir Beach is set among centuries-old redwoods on a remote stretch of Northern California coast. You'll feel a million miles away from the hustle and bustle of nearby San Francisco. At ...
I survived Carlsbad Village Faire
Nation's largest street fest attracts 100,000+.
Today I was a very brave person. Despite my inner voice telling me to stay home, give my busy self a relaxing day for a change, I put the leash on my dog and we ...
Old-time California in Cambria
A classic coastal town on the PCH.
Unexpected. That’s the word that comes to mind when I think about my recent trip to Cambria, California. Cambria, located roughly a half hour north of San Louis Obispo, reminded me of the Midwest somehow. ...
Queen Califia's Magical Circle
Take the kids to this sculpture garden in Escondido.
Thirty miles up I-15 from San Diego, in Escondido, you’ll find Queen Califia’s Magical Circle. This is the unnatural habitat of wild animals that escaped from the imagination of Niki de Saint Phalle. She’s the ...
Serenity in the Channel Islands
Visiting Channel Islands National Park is like entering a time machine and being transported back a few hundred years to a wild and natural, pre-automobile, pre-industrial California. Located off the coast of Ventura, the Channel ...
Borrego Springs's Mud Caves
Spelunk away: one of the world's most extensive mud cave formations is just two hours east.
In the geographical wonders of the Anza-Borrego desert, you will find a unique Southern California feature: mud caves, deep caves created by flowing silt from an ancient lake bed, eroded by wind and rain. They're ...
Desert Inspiration in Palm Springs
It makes an ideal place to write, says local author Edward Cozza.
Dreams. Patterns in the clouds. Drug-fueled hallucinations. A life thoroughly well-lived. There are many answers to the question: where does a writer find their inspiration? But for some, it's all about the location. Some places ...
Death Valley – Why?
Transcendence found in the California desert.
Deep in the belly of Death Valley National Park, I pitched my tent up against sage bushes looking out at snowcapped mountains. Campers sat in their vehicles, some huddled in their tents, all dodging the ...
Surviving the Swarm in Anza-Borrego
Just 2 hours from S.D., the great outdoors can still have its surprises...
As a young woman on a budget, I've found many ways to travel on the cheap, and one of my favorite destinations is Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in east county San Diego. It's close, it's ...
Simi Valley's Skateboard Museum
Say the high-brow word “museum,” and I’ll generally shell out any price to visit, but when the Ventura Visitor’s Center handed me a brochure that suggested a museum collection of over 2,000 skateboards, I did ...
Coronado is haunted
Across the bay, tales of the paranormal at the Hotel Del and Loews resort.
“You see that too, right?” Lacey held her wine glass at half-mast, staring at the steps leading from the Hotel Del Coronado to the Pacific Ocean. We were outdoors at Babcock & Story, the Del’s ...
Old World Solvang, CA
A continent away, just 4 hours north of San Diego.
Usually it's places with some sort of dark, twisted history that attract me. If a place doesn't have that, it's pretty rare that I'll visit, much less make it a regular stomping ground. So, considering ...
Cabins, Karaoke and Snow Pain in Wrightwood
Giving the mountains a second chance.
Wrightwood, CA, is a ski town just 1–10 hours away from L.A., depending on traffic. Mark and I were excited for our fully stocked rented weekend cabin. It belonged to a friend’s soon-to-be ex-wife. We ...
The Caravaggio effect
Consider two decapitations
Caravaggio and His Legacy, on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art until February 10. 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles. 323-857-6000; lacma.org In his 20s, in Rome, in the first decade of the ...
