Today I photographed two California condors feeding on a dead sea lion. California condors are the largest land birds of North America. They are a rare sighting with only 232 California condor birds in the wild as of October 31,
Four hotels in the Monterey Peninsula-Big Sur area are members of the Condé Nast Traveler Platinum Circle List signifying five consecutive years, including 2012, on their annual CN Traveler Gold List hotels. Ventana Inn, Big Sur 89.7 Post Ranch Inn,
Big Sur is a place, a region, a destination, a mindset, a way of life. Big Sur is Highway 1, the Santa Lucia Mountains, hairpin road turns and crumbling rocky hillsides where cliffs drop to the sea; sometimes taking the
Yesterday was bird day afternoon along the Big Sur coast of Monterey County. The wind blown waves made whale spotting difficult. To compensate for lack of whale sightings was a marvelous display of birds, thousands of gulls, soaring along the
I spent a day at the beach in Carmel last week. There were the usual crowds walking along the boutique storefronts and across Ocean Street. The pedestrian traffic subsided quickly once away from the commercial district of Carmel and the
Last summer I calculated we paid about 40% more for low cost flights on airlines like Norwegian, Ryanair and Wizz by adding the price for one checked bag on each of my wife’s tickets. Kelley’s argument for a checked bag
Murphys Irish Day is the 3rd Saturday in March and most recently happened Saturday, March 16, 2019. Murphys Irish Day probably saw more than 20,000 visitors to the small Sierra foothills town of Murphys in Calaveras County. About 600 yards
In late December Kelley and I were talking to a young college student Russian woman at California Republic Bar in Prague, Czechia. A large photo covered one wall depicting a street scene that looked to me like Los Angeles, circa
Nonstop Prague to Nice on Sunday on Czech Airlines was $93, but I purchased a LOT Polish ticket instead for Prague to Nice flying Saturday afternoon with a 22.5 hour transit layover in Warsaw for $100.49 one way. Loyalty Traveler
Today there are fare deals on The Flight Deal and SecretFlying about Condor $169 one way flights in July from Portland PDX. While you may think this article is another rehash of the same old deals, I plan to go
