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Plentiful sunshine is a gift of Monterey in May. These are the weeks before peak summer tourism season days really ramp up and makes driving Highway 1 south to Carmel and Big Sur a drag for local residents. And these are the weeks before the peak summer fog days of June, July and August settle…
Two factors led me to choose Best Western Cedar Inn & Suites Angels Camp, California for a hotel stay in what is regionally called California ‘Gold Country’. Angels Camp is one of dozens of towns in the Sierra Nevada foothills founded during the California gold rush era. Most importantly, Murphys Irish Day, 11 miles uphill…
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 of Main Street, where most of the commercial businesses in town are located, were blocked…
Disneyland with my parents in the days before Thanksgiving was precious. Thanksgiving with even more family members was a blessing. Burning 50,000 Best Western Rewards points for 5 room nights at hotels across the street from the Disneyland park entrance was a steal. Driving 900 miles across California spending $255 for 3 IHG hotels and…
Car rental tip is book early, then check rates again and again for price drops. I cut the rental rate 25% over the past month by rebooking the car several times as prices dropped between two different car rental companies.
Environmental tourism is a major draw of Monterey Bay for visitors from around the world. I meet people from many states and countries when I am out and about viewing and photographing wildlife in the area. Recent science news stories indicate 60% of the world’s mammals have been wiped out since 1970. That is around…
A massive landslide dropped a mountainside of dirt and rocks on the Pacific Coast Highway 1 in rural southern Monterey County, California this past weekend. The highway is buried under 40 feet of debris for 1/4 to 1/2 mile and will likely be closed for more than one year for repairs. Highway 1 had already…
The Monterey Peninsula gets some serious tourism with a couple million visitors throughout the year. Tourism here peaks June to August, but May is still relaxing for me in the weeks before the crowds pick up and travelers fill the coastal walking paths. As a local Monterey resident, I headed three miles down the coast…
A fare war started last week continues between the three major alliances. Oneworld and SkyTeam strike Austrian and Swiss Air cities with low fares in the $400s from California airports LAX, SFO and SJC Graz, Innsbruck, Salzburg and Vienna in Austria, along with Basel and Zurich, Switzerland. SkyTeam services Graz and Oneworld services Innsbruck, Salzberg…
The last few days were one of those periods when airfares in California were anomalously lower from regional airports like my hometown Monterey MRY, with lower airline ticket prices to Europe than airfare from Los Angeles LAX and San Francisco SFO/San Jose SJC. These kinds of fare sales have happened a couple times this year…
