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The San Diego Traveler

Archive for the ‘Tourism/Travel’ Category

December 4th, 2007

Festival of Lights Coming to the Wild Animal Park

From December 7–23 and December 26–30, the Wild Animal Park illuminates the holiday season with their annual Festival of Lights.
Everyone will delight in up-close exotic animal encounters and nighttime Journey into Africa tours. The celebration continues with holiday crafts and face painting for the kids.  One of the biggest thrills for the children […]

By Carole A. Lane -- 1 comment

November 30th, 2007

It’s Raining, It’s Pouring and San Diego is Crashing!

If you’re new to town, or a tourist in San Diego, you should probably stay off the roads today. 
No, I’m serious. You’re probably laughing now, right? You’ve driven in blizzards, huge storms, or far more dangerous conditions elsewhere, and after all, it’s just a little rain! That’s entirely true, but it’s a sad fact:

San Diegans can’t […]

By Carole A. Lane -- 2 comments

November 27th, 2007

Hotel Del Coronado to Host Celebrations All Season

The holidays have taken over the Hotel del, with one magical celebration after another. Guests staying at the hotel can enjoy a variety of activities including Santa’s surrey-sleigh rides through Coronado Island, cookie decorating, holiday crafts for kids, Tent City Kids’ Camp with holiday scavenger hunts and family s’mores roasts. Little ones love the ‘Elf […]

By Carole A. Lane -- 9 comments

November 21st, 2007

South Bay Expressway Opens

If you’re planning on doing any driving around San Diego over the holidays, note that your GPS or map may need some updating.  A new 10-mile toll road opened this week from Spring Valley to the Otay Mesa border crossing.
You may enter South Bay Expressway from the north at SR-54 and at Otay Mesa Road/SR-905 from the south. The […]

By Carole A. Lane -- 0 comments

November 19th, 2007

The San Diego Special Edition - November 19, 2007

Welcome to the November 19, 2007 edition of The San Diego Special Edition. Much of our attention has been on the recent wildfires that spread throughout the county. It’s not surprising that so many of this month’s articles come back to this topic. Although the fires are out now, we all know that this isn’t […]

By Carole A. Lane -- 9 comments

October 29th, 2007

Welcome Friends, Old and New, to the Carnival of Cities!

Last week, Anthony McCune at The Lives and Times…of Anthony McCune hosted the weekly Carnival of Cities.
There were twenty writers participating in this edition, coming from across the U.S., and as far as Australia, India, Spain, South Africa, Finland, England an Malyasia. Under no authority whatsoever, I’m bestowing these awards to my favorites, along […]

By Carole A. Lane -- 2 comments

October 17th, 2007

The San Diego Special Edition - October 17, 2007

Welcome to the October 17, 2007 edition of The San Diego Special Edition. If this is your first time here, I should explain that the “Special Edition” is special because it includes the voices of so many other San Diego bloggers.
An invitation goes out once each month, asking San Diego bloggers and travel writers who […]

By Carole A. Lane -- 8 comments

September 18th, 2007

Carnival of Cities in Dubai

This week’s Carnival of Cities starts in Dubai for the first time, hosted at Sandier Pastures.
Each of the articles in this week’s carnival is a good read in it’s own right, but as usual, I have favorites. So, under no authority whatsoever, I’m giving the following awards:

Best travelogue: In the Heart of Calabria: Benvenuti a Badaloto! […]

By Carole A. Lane -- 5 comments

July 1st, 2007

Flying to and from San Diego Just Got Easier

This week, jetBlue Airways began flying one non-stop roundtrip flight between San Diego to Boston each evening. They already fly non-stops between San Diego and New York City/JFK as well as Washington DC/Dulles. On July 27, jetBlue will add another new non-stop flight between San Diego and Salt Lake City, UT.

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By Carole A. Lane -- 0 comments

June 28th, 2007

San Diego Airports

When you think of San Diego’s Airport, you probably think about Lindbergh Field.  It occurs to me that travelers (and many residents as well) are probably not familiar with all of San Diego county’s airports.  There are actually an even dozen public airports, and many other military and private facilities.  Starting with the largest and most famous […]

By Carole A. Lane -- 2 comments