California Citrus State Historic Park, Riverside
California Citrus State Historic Park is a 247 acre open air museum in Riverside whose mission is to preserve citrus history. The history begins well before 1873, when the first two naval orange trees were sent by the US Department of Agriculture to a Riverside resident, but instead with the origin of the citrus plant…
World of Orchids Showcase, San Diego Botanic Gardens
It is that time of year, the World of Orchids annual showcase is currently on display in the San Diego Botanic Gardens 8,000 square foot greenhouse. This year the exhibition will last from March 11- April 9. Throughout the showcase, upon multiple visits, visitors can expect to see different orchids as all the plants are…
Tecate, Baja California, Mexico
Tecate, Baja California is a Pueblo Magico, a designation given by the Mexico Secretary of Tourism to cities that offer visitors a special cultural experience. There are currently 132 Pueblo Magicos in Mexico, only three of which are located in Baja California. The unique thing about Tecate is that is a border town. We park…
Observatory Trail, Palomar Mountain
Palomar Observatory is an astronomical research facility in the Palomar Mountain Range (located at 6,142′ elevation). Inside the observatory is a 200″ Palomar telescope, the world’s largest telescope from 1949-1975. Unfortunately, due to the snow and the proclivity for San Diegans to go absolutely crazy over snow in our local mountains, the observatory remained closed…
Pacific Southwest Railway Museum, Campo
The Pacific Southwest Railway Museum Association’s mission statement is to preserve history through physical legacy, historical context, cultural landscape and experience of rail transportation. The Campo rail station dates back to 1916, a stop along the San Diego & Arizona Eastern Railway line. In order to connect Arizona to San Diego, the tracks had to…
The Miniature Engineering Craftsmanship Museum, Carlsbad
The museum name is a mouthful, but very descriptive. The Miniature Engineering Craftsmanship Museum is a nonprofit organization dedicated to displaying and giving tribute to skillful work created by underrated craftsmen (and craftswomen). These craftspeople are artisans who have built something intriguing on a small scale. The museum opened in 2011, and since has grown…
California Science Center, Los Angeles
The California Science Center is a public institution of science and learning located in a 245,000 square foot complex with an IMAX theater. The museum is the West coast’s largest hands on science center and it is free to the public (except for parking and rides). The exhibits feature fire safety, conception and reproduction, natural…
Alabama Hills Trail
Just a minute past our campsite at the end of Contact Flat is the trail marker for the Alabama Hills trailhead. This trail has several branching off points but we stuck to the right, veering around the hill we were camped on. We ended up directly on the other side of it and so instead…
Contact Flat, Alabama Hills
The Alabama Hills are like no where else on earth. Its rounded rocks and eroded hills settled before the jagged peaks of Mount Whitney, the tallest mountain in the contiguous United States, formed over 100 million years ago as earth’s plates pushed into each other with no place for the land to go but up.…
Self-Realization Fellowship, Encinitas
Indian monk and guru Paramahansa Yogananda founded the self-realization fellowship in Los Angeles in 1920. Through the fellowship he introduced millions of people to meditation and kriya yoga. He taught that the universe is “God’s cosmic motion picture”. The Encinitas retreat and gardens was opened almost two decades later, in 1937. The gardens, which are…
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