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Dining and lodging around Monmouth, Oregon
Monmouth is on State 99W, 5 miles south of State 22; Independence is a scant 2 miles east. Another option ― especially from the south ― is to take I-5 to Talbot Rd. (exit 242), drive about 4 miles west to Buena Vista, and ride one of the two remaining car ferries on the Willamette River. The Bu
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Colorados Pearl
At 25, Pearl Street Mall in Boulder, Colorado, continues to generate edgy energy, controversy, and cosmopolitan flair. Here are some of the places we always duck our heads into. For information on anniversary events, contact (303) 449-3774 or www.boulderdowntown.com.(A) Muy calienteThis is one
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Palm Desert: The capital of cool
Ive just suffered through two-plus hours of Inland Empire gridlock so that I can unwind in the desert, and I plan to ditch my car for the weekend (if not, alas, forever). Which is why Ive come to Palm Desert. Not only does it do the whole midcentury modern thing perfectly, but of all California
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All aglow in Madrid
During its 1950s mining heyday, Madrid, New Mexico, celebrated Christmas by stringing thousands of lights all over town. The display was so grand that a fledgling airline, which later became TWA, used to reroute its cross-country flights over this village northeast of Albuquerque, just so passe
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Colorado: The next wine country
By Eugenia BoneI didnt even know wine existed in Colorado in 1998, when I moved from New York City to a run-down ranch near Grand Junction. But it took all of about one week to discover that I had relocated to the fringes of an extraordinary wine scene.I quickly became hooked on the adventure o
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Coastal Hikes in Pacifica Beach, California
We cant figure out why more folks dont make the jaunt to Pacifica. Maybe only surfers know that the gentle rolling waves at Pacifica State Beach are prime territory for beginners.The town is also home to a vintage pier, a wholesale orchid nursery, and some of the best coastal hiking anywhere at
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Tahquitz Canyon
Balmy weather in the dry Coachella Valley makes this month a rare
opportunity for a fair-weather hike to a rushing waterfall in
Tahquitz Canyon, part of the Agua Caliente Reservation, just west
of Palm Springs.
In recent years, the Tahquitz Canyon waterfall was little more
than a trickle for
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Berkeleys best
When Berkeley was young, Fourth Street was where work got done.
Odoriferous tanneries softened hides into fine leather, and
metalsmiths made sparks fly while potters spun wet clay and labored
in the mouths of red-hot kilns. Today, this popular shopping street
is a marketplace for artful housewa
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Fitness guru Teresa Marchese
At 5:45 on a brisk morning, before even the first streaks of light hit San Francisco Bay, Teresa Marchese leads a group of eight women in a series of heart-pounding sprints down a waterfront trail at Crissy Field.Come on, come on ― I know you can do it! she tells a panting newbie who falls shor
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Sunsets 1906 Emergency Edition
In a greeting from the publishers, the magazine wrote:
To all Sunsets Friends, Patrons, and Subscribers, -- Greeting: This is to announce that by reason of the recent destruction by fire of the Sunset Magazine offices on April 18th, this Emergency Edition will be the only issue of the magazine
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Today in the blogs
Home by sunsetCool projects, products, architecture news, and ideas for greener living from our design gurusGo thereFresh DirtGet our experts latest garden finds, sources, news, and tips for what to do in your garden nowGo thereOur one-block dietWatch food editor Margo True and garden crew rais
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Happy in Los Feliz
Los Angeles Westside wasnt always the center of the world.
There was a time when its beach communities were just for weekend
getaways, while the rich and famous resided in communities like Los
Feliz, conveniently close to studios. Today, Los Feliz is coming
back into its own.
Los Feliz sits ju
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Secret missions
Pack a picnic and celebrate spring beside central New Mexicos dramatic, often-overlooked Spanish mission ruins. Looming up from the windswept Estancia Basin, the multistoried remains of three 17th-century churches ― each built on an ancient pueblo site and scattered within a 50-mile radius ― co
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Fun vintage shopping in Long Beach, California
Why go: Shop alongside Hollywood costumers and set designers in this vintage-lovers hot spot.Where the action is: East Fourth St. between Hermosa and Junipero Avenues.Number of vintage shops: More than a dozen.1940s–1960s frocks and furniture: Hit the Vintage Collective (2122 E. Fourth; 562/433
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Surfs up in blue Hawaii
Flying into Kona, the plane passes low over turquoise water
so clear I can see white sand and black lava rocks through its
shimmering depths. Beyond the shore, the land tilts up to form
mountains cloaked in mist.
Not so long ago, I came to Hawaii, like most visitors, to
vacation on those beach
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Discover Wild Alaska
There are vacation spots that offer some of Southeast Alaskas best attributes: mountains, rivers, scenery. But no other place promises such easy and overwhelming immersion in the wild world.Within a hundred miles of Juneau is one of North Americas largest concentrations of brown bears and bald
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L.A.s bright lights
A rainy Sunday in Paris would seem an unlikely place to
begin a story about Los Angeles, but here goes.
About a year ago, my wife and I ducked into the venerable
Café de Flore along Boulevard Saint-Germain for a late lunch.
Our server was a handsome young guy in his 20s with flowing hair
and a
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Pleasures of the Pearl
Life in the
Pearl
The Pearl District is bounded by the Willamette River on the
northeast and by N.W. Broadway Ave., W. Burnside St., and N.W. 16th
Ave. on the east, south, and west, respectively.
SHOPPING
In Good Taste. Gourmet cookware, cookbooks, and fine foods.
Evening and weekend cooking
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Discover India in San Jose
Indian food now simmers in the cafeterias of many high-tech companies in Silicon Valley. Indian shops are sprinkled throughout San Jose, and Bollywood is a household word.When the first high-tech emigrants from the Indian subcontinent moved to the area about 40 years ago, few imagined that one
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Phoenix for girls
Traveling with my daughters used to be easy. They would gamely explore anything, as long as there was the promise of ice cream at the end. But when Anjelica, 12, and Natalia, 15, each hit middle school, they rebelled.All they wanted to see in a new city was … the mall. Overnight, I became an ea
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