Swimming pools! Movie stars! The mystique of Beverly Hills loomed large in the world’s collective imagination long before Julia Roberts’s character in Pretty Woman had a troublesome shopping experience along famously chic Rodeo Drive.
California’s second largest city and the United States’ eighth largest, San Diego boasts a citywide population of nearly 1.3 million residents and more than 3 million residents countywide. Within its borders of 4,200 sq. miles, San Diego County encompasses 18 incorporated cities and numerous other charming neighborhoods and communities, including downtown’s historic Gaslamp Quarter, Little Italy, Coronado, La Jolla, Del Mar, Carlsbad, Escondido, La Mesa, Hillcrest, Barrio Logan, Chula Vista just to name a few.
Recommendations For Carmel’s 5 Major Events This Summer There are numerous events happening year around in this seaside town and we’ll feature some of the top upcoming events during the summer months. Here are 5 events taking place this summer: Big Sur International Marathon, Carmel Art Festival & Sculpture in the Park, Sunshine Freestyle Surfabout, Jazz at the Plaza, and Carmel Bach Festival.
There’s much more to Palm Springs vacation rentals than just sitting in a comfortable and spacious rental lodging. Palm Springs has been a hot spot (literally, since the temperature reaches 120 degrees on hot summer days) for celebrities and tourists for decades.
Imagine the desert here as the bottom of a vast sea. Many millions of years ago, that’s what it was. By 10 million years ago, the waters had receded and the climate was hospitable to prehistoric mastodons, zebras, and camels. As recently as 10,000 years ago, the Colorado River still spilled into this basin intermittently, and around AD 700 Lake Cahuilla formed.
More than a city, Los Angeles is a one-of-a-kind vacation destination encompassing a dazzling array of unique and exciting regions – each one distinct, yet decidedly “LA.” As the entertainment capital of the world offering 75 miles of sunny coastline, a flourishing Downtown, lifestyle playgrounds for the rich and famous, trendsetting arts scenes and internationally flavored neighborhoods, Los Angeles travel is unlike any other.
Napa Valley, in the Bay Area in California, is the main wine growing region of the United States of America and one of the major wine regions of the world. It is also known for its gourmet restaurants, cafes, and spa-treatment centers.
If you don’t happen to have time to tour the entire state of California, we found a place that almost seems like a microcosm of the state. You have your beaches, your surfers, you r Redwood forests and, just an hour away, one of the state’s largest and most cosmopolitan cities. Give up? Try Santa Cruz. Hugging some of California’s most scenic coastline, this city offers a sampling of some of the state’s most interesting attractions all in one relatively small area.
