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This July, I’m riding my bicycle along with about 35 other people as part of an endurance tour that starts in Atlanta and ends two weeks later in Portland, Maine. Each day, we’ll ride an average of 100+ miles, and...

This July, I’m riding my bicycle along with about 35 other people as part of an endurance tour that starts in Atlanta and ends two weeks later in Portland, Maine. Each day, we’ll ride an average of 100+ miles, and...

mostly from Mexico, but also from California and the Dominican Republic, making them somewhat affordable, and available year-round. (Maybe we have NAFTA to thank for that?) I usually pay as little as $.75 for one. Anyway, about...

Note: I’m reposting from the California board so I can get a wider variety of answers... Hi all, a friend and I are making a long awaited road-trip from Napa to San Diego, stopping wherever, whenever along the way to see and...

Angeles standards. There is a cute little cobblestoned street through town where most of the shops are located, and where the Mission Loreto stands. This is the first of the series of California Missions, and it’s worth a...

Feiring perhaps makes her point a bit too strongly (not ALL California wine is bad — there’s good stuff if you look past the big producers), but she completely nails the qualities I despise in left coast wines....

in these parts, but it took a whooooole lot of hunting and asking to finally track down places that serve chiles relleno with the pepper roasted and peeled prior to cooking. It would be natural for me to assume that’s...

brands to try, from artisanal style to supermarket crap, but they’re all good. Never met a bacon I didn’t like!! I’m partial to the thinner and leaner variety, but it’s all a matter of taste. Enjoy your...

As for the faux Asian tour, it must feature lots of California roll and dynamite and a meal at one of these “fusion” places where they mix your rice with mayonaise. (Yummy!) Let’s face it, sushi isn’t just...

on the train tracks, the push of millions of people shuffling through the streets, all came together to sucker punch me in the eyes, ears, nose and skin. After the 9th trip in three years however, I got used to it all and began...