December 27, 2011
Many people head to Santa Barbara’s charming coastal community for summer beach going. Or perhaps to take part in art shows or kite flying demonstrations in the spring or fall. We like heading to Santa Barbara in the winter time, when the white lights strung across the main shopping district of State Street and sparkling ...
November 17, 2010
Many travelers come to Santa Barbara for the gourmet restaurants or the incredible setting that stretches from the blue mountains to the bluer-still Pacific ocean in this lovely coastal town just under two hours from Los Angeles. We’ve come for many reasons – to attend a concert at the beautiful downtown art deco theater, the ...
August 15, 2010
When a co-worker recently suggested Santa Barbara and California’s Central Coast as a family vacation destination, I was a bit skeptical. It was on our list of possible honeymoon destinations when Dora and I were getting married and didn’t have much money to go farther than Las Vegas (which my wife-to-be had rejected as too ...