Bats are one of the main icons for Halloween imagery. I know a place not too far from Monterey, California known for its bats. They are a species named Townsend’s big-eared bats. These bats breed in talus caves of Pinnacles
Pebble Beach, California is a vacation playground for the rich and famous with $1,000 per night hotel rooms and $500 rounds of golf and spa treatments. There are three hotel resorts in Pebble Beach with The Lodge at Pebble Beach,
California Gold Country is a strip of land about 120 miles long north to south in the Sierra Nevada foothills and about five miles wide. Many of the oldest hotels in California opened during the 1850s Gold Rush era still operate
Marriott Rewards announced hotel reward category changes yesterday to take effect on April 8, 2014. The changes continue the trend of pushing far more hotels up to higher category levels than hotels coming down to a lower category. Last year’s
One of the common features I have seen in many American cities over the past few decades is urban renewal through reconstruction of 19th and 20th century buildings designed for the industrial age into public residential and commercial places and
Different online travel agency (OTA) sites generally charge the same rate for the same hotel room and that rate is generally the same as the lowest Best Available Rate on the hotel brand website. The hotels in major hotel brands
A study of hotel guests is making the news rounds this week with its conclusions that Generation Y travelers (age 24-36) comprise 33% of hotel guests who booked online compared to 23% Generation X (age 37-48) and 29% Baby Boomers
The National Parks closure across the USA has impacted my travel plans. I had planned to visit Sequoia National Park this week and Muir Woods National Monument next week. My plans have shifted to California State Parks tourism. There is
‘Don’t Bust the Crust! It’s Alive!’ is the message that greets you at Arches National Park Visitor Center. Microbial communities in the soil of the desert sands in Arches National Park make up a living crust of nutrients allowing larger
Pinnacles National Park is 60 miles southeast of where I live in Monterey, California. Pinnacles refer to the massive rock spires and crags dotting the landscape of the park in the Gabilan Range. This is condor bird country and there
