SAN DIEGO, California – Each spring, the marine layer takes over San Diego, and a coolness sweeps through the region. It is this coolness that fosters a lush, green coastline, where birds mingle in marshlands that seem to preserve another time. It is this enviro that hosts a gentle people, friendly and good-natured. None of …
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Postcard from Palm Springs
PALM SPRINGS, CA – Though it’s only a 107 mile drive from Los Angeles, Palm Springs is a world apart from the city. The dust broils over onto the roadway, and as the mountain range narrows, the wind is funneled into the farm. It is said that a newer model of the windmill will power …
Postcard from Sacramento
SACRAMENTO, California – There’s no time like autumn to stroll through the City of Trees. From the river bank to the Capitol building, everywhere you go, you will come across magnificent trees, its leaves sprawling onto the sidewalks where on a week day state workers will traverse. Beyond the tree-lined streets, art ferments nearby. Sactown …
Postcard from Honolulu
HONOLULU, HAWAII – When visiting some place so engrained in our cultural mind for the first time, it leaps from the pages. But there are still surprises lurking at each corner. Onboard the boat, the captain says that the sands of Waikiki are not from Hawaii at all. Instead, they were transplanted from the States …
Postcard from Locke
LOCKE, California – Not far from Sacramento, there’s a California National Historic Landmark. A window into Central Valley history emerges – and it is not difficult to imagine the countryside having stayed as it was on this day – cattle by the side of the road, grazing to the backdrop of clear, blue skies – …
Postcard from Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES, U.S.A.- Our collective memory of a Los Angeles we have never been to exists only in the backlot of Universal and in raw footage of clips from the 70’s. In that age of television, neon signs and permed hair abound. The skyline is still much the same these days, but on a given …
Postcard from San Simeon
SAN SIMEON, U.S.A. – South of the lighthouse sits a monument where Chinese fishermen used to gather seaweed and abalone. There, the wind gullies have grass flopping over centuries perhaps. Point Piedras Blancas alludes to the Mexicans that used to extend into the region. These days, cars flash by; on weekends, there is a line …
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