Hit the Road

I love history — especially when learning about it is effortless. Delving into the history of Southern California is easy when you take a guided...

How many neurons does the adult brain have? How many times does the heart beat in an average life span? How many muscles does it...

The entire Coachella Valley and beyond stretched out before us — from the Salton Sea on the east to Mount San Jacinto (10,834 feet) in...

I want to thank my cousin, Barb Dolbey, and her husband, Steve, for our love of New Mexico. My husband, Jerry, and I enjoyed traveling...

Chances are that when you begin to plan a trip, you turn to the Internet. If so, you are among the three out of four...

When Frank and Heidi Boynton of Oceanside decided to venture to Costa Rica for eight days last May, they couldn’t have predicted what was to...

The Golden Gate Bridge, Lombard Street, Alcatraz and cable cars are universally familiar icons of San Francisco, and no one knows them better than photographer...

This year there is more to see in the desert than wildflowers. Come for the wild things — mammoths, wild horses, saber tooths, camels, sloths,...

You haven’t truly seen Coronado until you’ve viewed it through the eyes of Nancy Cobb. She’s the historian and preservationist who leads informative, chatty and...

What’s a guy from Hackensack, N.J., doing in Bozeman, Mont.? Taking photos — lots of photos. Photography and Montana are both passions for Salvatore Vasapolli,...

If there was ever a time when we need bargains in travel, this is it. Most consumers are practicing some economic belt-tightening; we are buying...