California Beaches Blog

Southern California Travel –Are you hitting the skies like 1.49 million passengers passing through Los Angeles / Ontario International Airports this Thanksgiving 2009? The busiest days at each airport are expected to be Friday, Nov. 20; Wednesday, Nov. 25; and Sunday, Nov. 29, 2009, with airlines forecasting passenger load factors approaching 80 percent on most [...]

There are two great beach destinations to visit and take a look at California’s unique ships–San Diego’s Star of India is an iron ship in the San Diego harbor,  and the Cement Ship at Seacliff Beach in Aptos, Santa Cruz County, is a decaying ship that has become part of a pier.
In San Diego, the [...]

View of the Arkansas River from Peabody Hotel guest room in Little Rock
When you see all the fabulous, upscale hotels in San Francisco and San Diego, why would you ever leave California to visit Little Rock? That’s a question I put to passengers surrounding me on my flight to that Midwest U.S. city. Most came [...]

It has been 67 years since California’s shores were attack by an enemy in a war commemorated by survivors  just a week ago on Veteran’s Day. Today, surfers, swimmers, people walking dogs, and tourists staying at Bacara Beach Resort barely notice Goleta Marker 3 that tells about a shelling by a Japanese submarine of what [...]

Coast to Coast AM radio often features Las Vegas news man George Knapp on Sunday evenings. Knapp sticks with the meat of UFOlogy and other topics, and offers some of the best entertainment in talk radio as he wears his reporter’s hat, asking about claims such as Bob Lazar’s long-time story and report that he [...]

You’ll get two different answers as to why the chickens cross the road in California, depending on if you are in the Central Coast beach town of Arroyo Grande, or if you are in the Central Valley city of Fair Oaks.
In Fair Oaks they celebrate chickens each year with an annual Fair Oaks Chicken Festival [...]

When searching for the beach party, sometimes you want to do more than just roast marshmallows over a bonfire in one of the permitted bonfire rings.
When cookings “the thing”, you will be glad to know that Southern California offers a variety of opportunities to cook a meal at the beach.
One of my the coolest locations [...]

If you missed the story about San Francisco ranking more 4 diamond restaurants than any other city in California, then you still have time to check out this one. Happy Hour begins afternoons when the fog rolls in and friends cozy up to a cocktail lounge where really great appetizers, menu items and drinks are [...]

While AAA (Automobile Club of America) recently announced their 2010 Five Diamond Hotels, the Four Diamonds were missing. It turns out that Fives get announced first, then the Fours usually come a few weeks later. We try to keep a running tab on the results.
In 2009, the Four Diamond Hotels were quite important to [...]

Book Review: Roadside Baseball by Chris Epting, published by The Sporting News
Anyone who loves sports will be absolutely fascinated by the new edition of this fabulous book and be able to find incredible trivia about baseball-related stuff that happened near them no matter where they live or lived. It’s divided into East, South, Midwest, West [...]