San Diego Festivals – 2022
While you’ll certainly have no problem finding fun things to do in San Diego, you can also check out the list below to see if there’s a festival or event happening during your visit. It’s a perfect way to enjoy…
Orange County Festivals – 2021 / 2022
While there’s certainly no shortage of things to do in Orange County, visiting during the area’s Restaurant Week celebration or when a fun food or wine festival is happening can definitely kick your trip up a notch! The event list…
Five Easy Ways to Save on Your Los Angeles Vacation
Most of us work hard all year and may even scrimp on other things in order to afford a nice vacation. It’s our chance to relax and recharge, to play and unwind and, sometimes, to spend time with loved ones…
Los Angeles Vacation Ideas
Roughly 75 miles north of Mexico and 400 miles south from San Francisco, “The City of Angels” has one of the world’s most idyllic climates. Los Angeles enjoys around 284 sunny days each year, and it’s definitely a good place…
Los Angeles Tourist Maps
The Los Angeles area is geographically quite large, measuring almost 100 miles from one end to the other. To help with planning a visit to this vast area, most Los Angeles travel guides subdivide it into smaller regions, as shown…
San Diego Vacation Ideas
About three million people live in San Diego County, roughly half of them in the city of San Diego, itself. The Golden State’s second largest city bills itself as “America’s Finest City,” which may seem like hyperbole… until you travel…
Orange County Vacation Ideas
While Orange County is one of the smallest southern California counties in terms of area, it’s the third most populous county in the state. Largely agricultural when it separated from Los Angeles County in 1889, the completion of a trolley…
San Diego Amusement / Theme Parks
While the two other Southern California areas — Los Angeles and Orange County — have the best known California amusement parks, there are some unique San Diego theme park offerings you should consider for your vacation on weekend getaway. We…
San Diego Museums
Many of San Diego’s 90+ museums are in or near the city-center area, with Balboa Park — the city’s cultural heart — hosting 17 of them. If you are a museum-lover, you may want to consider purchasing the money-saving Balboa…
San Diego Tourist Attractions
When some people visit San Diego, the only things on their list to see are a sandy beach and the Pacific Ocean… and they might even include a hiking trail if it leads to the beach. Others might add a…
Orange County Tourist Attractions
The attractions list below sets out some of the area’s entertaining man-made attractions, organized by area for your convenience. A separate type of man-made attractions — those more geared toward education — are covered in our Orange County Museums article….
Orange County Amusement / Theme Parks
Orange County is where Americans love of amusement and theme parks began, although reasonable minds may differ on exactly which “Walter” fathered the industry – Walter Knott or Walter Elias Disney. In the 1920s, the Knott family sold berries and…