December 4th, 2007
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 […]
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November 30th, 2007
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 […]
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November 27th, 2007
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 […]
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November 21st, 2007
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 […]
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November 19th, 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 […]
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October 29th, 2007
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 […]
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October 17th, 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
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! […]
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July 1st, 2007
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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June 28th, 2007
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 […]
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