Warm winter sun and coastal drives, modernist homes and Hollywood lore, martinis and wildflowers in the desert.
Santa Barbara & the Central Coast
This fairy-tale stretch of California coast is packed with wild beaches, misty redwood forests where hot springs hide, and rolling golden hills of fertile vineyards and farm fields.
San Francisco & the Bay Area
If thereās a skateboard move yet to be busted, a technology still unimagined, a poem left unspoken or a green scheme untested, chances are itās about to happen here.
North Coast & Redwoods
Spectral fog and an outsider spirit have fostered the worldās tallest trees, most potent weed and a string of idiosyncratic two-stoplight towns.
This diverse area is home to deep pockets of individuality, beauty and different ways of thinking.
SAN DIEGO
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New York has its cabbie, Chicago its bluesman and Seattle its coffee-drinking boho. San Diego has its surfer dude, with his tousled hair, great tan and gentle enthusiasm; he looks like heās on a perennial vacation, and when he wishes you welcome, he really means it.
San Diego calls itself āAmericaās Finest Cityā and its breezy confidence and sunny countenance filter down even to folks you encounter every day on the street. It feels like a collection of villages each with their own personality, but itās the nationās eighth-largest city and weāre hard-pressed to think of a place of any size thatās more laid-back.
Downtown San Diego
1 Sights
1Maritime MuseumB1
2New Childrenās MuseumD3
4 Sleeping
3US Grant HotelD2
4USA Hostels San DiegoE3
6 Drinking & Nightlife
5Bang BangE3
3 Entertainment
6Arts TixD2
7House of BluesE2
1 Sights
New Childrenās Museum Museum
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