10 Mar, 2010
Posted by: Beach Reporter In: beaches| california| travel
San Simeon, Calif.–California State Parks need lots of friends to pay its bills. While tremendous focus has been placed on the portions of the California State Parks system that don’t cover administrative costs and seek to make up the difference with an added tax to each car licensed in California, one jewel that has not [...]
15 Feb, 2010
Posted by: Beach Reporter In: beaches| california
Central Coast, California–Some travelers are puzzled by the allure of a little town on the Pacific Ocean shoreline some 25 miles south of Hearst Castle. Caycucos isn’t very big. About 3,000 people live there. It has one main street (Ocean) near the ocean. It has a pier, a community center, a few restaurants, a bar/saloon, [...]
Travelers and travel writers can’t get enough of cute little Cayucos, declared one of the nation’s top 10 towns worth a weekend visit recently by somebody in the travel industry. With an old saloon, a few trendy boutique style restaurants serving locally crafted, award-winning wines, and the corner BBQ where you sit at a table [...]
A friend told me she just returned to Orange County from a road trip with her hubby to San Francisco. Where did they go, stop and stay? That’s what always interests me most. She said they stayed in a cheap hotel in SF that I’d not heard of near the “metro” and they got a [...]