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Road Trip

Feb 05, 2005 02:02PM ● By Don Kindred

Sometimes indelible memories are created on butt-numbing road trips. Our reluctance to reward ourselves with a little eye-candy scenery often questions our love affair with the automobile. Blithely, we take for granted that California’s Central Coast is a fine place to visit, but do we ever go and explore? What can we learn there?

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Yosemite Revisited

Feb 05, 2005 02:00PM ● By Greg Niemann

Yosemite Revisited Bam! The trout hit the fly and the sensitive rod jerked. I coaxed the wiggling fish across the river and up onto my rock. Releasing it, I was amazed at how small he was. As a long-time ocean fisherman, I’ve used bait larger than this little fellow.

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Baja Beat

Feb 05, 2005 01:58PM ● By Greg Niemann

Following the September 11, 2001 attacks, there was an initial drop in border crossings between the U.S. and Mexico, however in recent months more and more people are going back and forth from southern California to Baja California.

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~ Earth, Metal, Water, Wood, Fire ~

Feb 05, 2005 01:19PM ● By Don Kindred

We ’re not just another Landscape Company” owner Jim Miller proclaims on his Coastal Surroundings.com website. When you stroll through the on-line portfolio to see the earthen creations of his 40-year career, you have to believe him.

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THE GORDON JAMES GRILL Friendship, Business Acumen and Hard Work Establish a Dream

Feb 05, 2005 01:15PM ● By Don Kindred

Original floral tiles grace the restaurant’s entry. One of San Clemente’s oldest buildings sits on the corner of Avenida Del Mar and No. El Camino Real, fronting three-quarters of the block.

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Pondo Vleisides The Journey From Hometown Boy to Hometown Pastor

Feb 05, 2005 01:10PM ● By Don Kindred

To take a journey is to travel from one place to another. To take a personal journey is to pass or progress from one stage to another. Both definitions hold true in the life journey of San Clementean Pondo Vleisides. His has been a journey of passage from boyhood to pastorship, and it has been one involving several places and many stages.

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WWII Revisited in Palm Springs

Aug 05, 2004 07:14PM ● By Greg Niemann

It was the greatest conflict the world had ever seen, in terms of cost, of lives lost, and worldwide significance. World War II spanned the globe from large cities of Europe to small dots of islands in the Pacific Ocean.

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MONTE CARLO, MONACO - A Magical Place

Aug 05, 2004 06:55PM ● By Don Kindred

Journalist Anne Batty in front of Monte Carlo Casino. At the end of a sharply curving roadway on the Basse Corniche (lower shelf) of a stony mountain overlooking the turquoise waters of the Mediterranean Sea, sits the enchanted kingdom of Monte Carlo, Monaco. Visiting there is like stepping into a dream from which one never wants to wake. Nestled between France and Italy, it is a fairy tale place inh

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Stop Off - Fiji Life is a Village

Feb 05, 2004 05:47PM ● By Don Kindred

Uncle Jim, Fijian story teller. Tropical islands, for the most part, are much the same. Places where warm breezes caress swaying palms.

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ADVENTURE DOWN UNDER

Feb 05, 2004 05:40PM ● By Don Kindred

For most travelers, experiences, impressions, souvenirs and pictures earmark their adventures to other lands. At best remembrances of countries seen come back in bits and pieces. And once back home it is from these images that memories are made.

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