Category: California

When visiting wine country, you can choose your destination based on any number of factors such as wanting to explore the area by driving the countryside or walking the streets of a particular downtown? Recently my husband and I visited …

Sometimes the best experiences are in your own backyard, and in this case, it’s San Francisco. Consider being free of the hassles of flying, the tedium of making sure toiletries are in three ounce bottles. Recently, my husband and I …

Hotel restaurants and bars have come a long way from the days when you ate anywhere but in a hotel. Now, San Francisco Bay Area has some of the best, for locals as well as visitors. Check out some Top …

Photography by Emma Krasov Still evolving as a Wine Country destination, Paso Robles, California, gradually sheds its dusty farmer/rancher overalls, and tries on new gossamer outfits of gourmet sophistication and world-class tasting presentations. Small family-owned wineries, focused on refined varietals …

It was a spectacular happening like no other, as Santa Barbara rolled out the red carpet for 25 years of its fabulous Santa Barbara International Film Festival (SBIFF) 2010. It’s easy to fall in love with Santa Barbara. There’s no …

Photography by Yuri Krasov Traveling in California, one can’t help but marvel at a string of beach toy towns, almost artificially created in the most picturesque little valleys squeezed between the blue of the Pacific and the green and gold …

As you drive down the stretch of open sandy beach from LAX Airport, you notice the idle calmness. Street names slowly change from normal city signs into the descriptive “Seagull”, “Shell”, and “Marine”. The air changes from overly heavy and …

Photography by Yuri Krasov If Berkeley is not making headlines by blocking a navy recruiter‘s office, nude-sitting on trees designated for removal, or protesting against tuition hikes with a siege of a faculty building, it quietly lives its rather comfortable …

I had previously made a journey from the San Francisco Airport south through San Jose, Santa Cruz, Gilroy, Monterey, Carmel, Big Sur, Paso Robles, Hearst Castle and then returned back north to the San Francisco Airport. Less than three months …

Called the “Land of the Eternal Sun” by the Cahillia Indians, La Quinta’s history dates all the way back to the 16th Century, when Captain Juan Batista D’ Anza recognized La Quinta as the fifth base between Mexico and the …