This is a guest post by Susan Guillory of The Unexplorer. Living in San Diego, I’m accustomed to vegan organic food, people of every ethnicity and orientation, and hipster craft beer. But just an hour to the northeast of America’s finest city, I step back 100 or more years to the historic town of Julian, California. […]
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If you like being worlds apart, yet in the center of everything, consider a stay at El Prado Hotel in downtown Palo Alto. My husband and I were enjoying a staycation on the other side of the San Francisco Bay and decided to keep the happy vibe going. Why not enjoy another sunny day in
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This post is contributed by Lisa Crovo Dion I got an offer I couldn’t refuse. Extra-long Fourth of July weekend on Lake Tahoe with my posse. So here I am with my feet up, a warm breeze flowing through the open door to the deck, snowcapped (YES, snow in July) mountains in the distance, and
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This is a guest post by Susan Guillory of The Unexplorer. One of the perks of being a travel writer is that you get turned on to hotels that are doing exciting things. Grand openings, renovations, expansions…these are all my jam. So when I had the opportunity to stay at the Empress Hotel in La Jolla,
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Post contributed by Lisa Crovo Dion It’s summer and my kids have already been out of school for more than a week. So before travel and camps kick in, we’ve been exploring our city of San Francisco. Over the weekend it was an excursion to Chinatown where my son bought himself his third fidget spinner,
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This is a guest post by Susan Guillory of The Unexplorer. Let me preface this story by saying: I am Cajun. And given that there is not a great deal of Cajun culture in San Diego and its environs, I’m always pretty suspicious whenever anyone claims to sell Cajun food or play Cajun music. I taste the
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