California

photo of waves crashing on the shore in Pacifica

Fun, Food and Fog in Pacifica, California

This post was contributed by Lisa Crovo Dion Located a mere twenty miles south of San Francisco, the locals of Pacifica, CA would have you believe that their delightful coastal hamlet is perennially shrouded in fog. Don’t believe it. They’re just trying to keep it to themselves. While the fog does roll in quite heavily here at […]

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La Casa del Zorro: Luxury Desert Accommodations at Affordable Prices

This is a guest post by Susan Guillory of The Unexplorer. One thing you might not know about San Diego is that it is within two hours of a variety of landscapes and climates: there’s the beach, just 20 minutes from my house. Then there are the mountains, where Julian and other throwback towns sit nestled among

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Marine life at the Aquarium of the Bay

Aquarium of the Bay, Pier 39, San Francisco, CA

This post was contributed by Lisa Crovo Dion Last month, my family and I were invited to visit the always fascinating and very accessible Aquarium of the Bay at Pier 39. Pier 39 was ranked the most-visited attraction in San Francisco for the second time by San Francisco Travel Association’s Visitor Profile Study. According to 2014

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