Monthly Archives: March 2010

Monterey Gin Games

Coming to Monterey with the intention of leaving: not a good idea. Not in hindsight. But it was supposed to be just a few days where I could get away somewhere by the sea. At a time of year when there aren’t so many other tourists, because the weather is a little grey, is the [...]

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Santa Monica Pier Seeing Increased Tourism

In the middle of one of the worst recessions in decades. As the nation’s economy began to fail last year and many became unemployed the large theme parks in California began offering huge discounts but still saw declining attendance numbers. Due to this combination many larger theme parks like Universal=http://www.universalstudioshollywood.com/ , Disney, and Six Fags [...]

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The Santa Barbara Botanic Garden

The Santa Barbara Botanic Garden is just one of the amazingly beautiful parks and outdoor recreational facilities in and around the city. Botanic gardens tend to be one of the significant geographic representative features of most cities and this is no different with the one in Santa Barbara. Most of the horticultural offerings found there [...]

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Visit to Boston Includes Visions of Jack Kerouac and Lunch at 1790 Restaurant

My best friend from high school grew up in Boston, Massachusetts. Well, actually she grew up in Lowell, but I always referred to her as being from Boston because that’s what most people are familiar with. I always liked the fact she was from Lowell, though, which is right next to Boston, because it reminded [...]

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Nashville’s Bongo Java

In recent years, it seems as though all the truly great cities have come to adopt a cafe culture where none had existed before. Not in the U.S. at least. Hanging out at coffee shops has been a great national past time, but in earlier generations, most cities had only donut shops and all-night restaurants [...]

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Next Day Blinds Locations

Next Day Blinds has a number of styles that can change the look of a room, without disturbing your personal style. In addition to this, there is often consideration of the services they provide, such as in home consultations if you are in a city that has a branch nearby, as well as information about [...]

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Japanese Slowness in Singapore

This is an age of speed.  These kinds of times come around every so often, and they have a kind of futurist sensibility connected to their scope and focus, where technology becomes as essential as a heartbeat.  At times it even seems as though they might be the same exact things, technologies and the heart.  [...]

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