California is known for its beautiful beaches, lakes, deserts and magnificent mountains. However, with all the beauty, comes the potential for major disasters, including fires and mudslides.
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Is it just us, or has this year flown by? Before you know it, New Year’s Eve will be upon us. Typically, we like to stay close to home. We fill our living room with lighted candles, have a roaring fire in the fireplace, listen to our favorite music, sip champagne and enjoy yummy treats. One
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Kick off the Holiday Season. Invite your friends and family over for a Tree Trimming Party. It’s a fun party-mixer! And what better excuse to have a party and see your friends. And it’ll save you hours of decorating your tree, especially if it’s a big one. Tree Trimming Parties are fun for kids and big
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Even as locals, we love playing tourist in San Francisco – it’s such a FUN city to explore, walk, eat, shop… and people-watch! Chinatown is one of our favorite places to hang out. Located just a short walk from downtown Union Square (look for the green pagoda at the entrance to Grant Ave), the area is jam-packed with little restaurants, dim sum parlors, Chinese markets, bakeries, antique stores and more shops than you can count.
Here are five fun things to do in San Francisco’s Chinatown:
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Is your pumpkin this big? Alana checking out one of the giant pumpkins during Half Moon Bay’s annual Pumpkin weigh-off in October. A Halloween Surprise on the road We passed a guy on his motorcycle with a very unusual passenger riding with him. You never know what you’ll see on Halloween Enjoy the day!
Fall is a great time of year to visit Beijing. When we were there (late-September early October) the weather was perfect – warm, sunny and dry. Did you know that Beijing has more attractions than any other city in China? Highlights of our trip were touring the magnificent Forbidden City and walking along the
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Top Alice Springs Multi-Day Tours Find Top Alice Springs Multi-Day Tours, including: Alice Springs Highlights Tour Alice Springs to Ayers Rock (Uluru) Palm Valley 4WD Tour Early Morning Ballooning in Alice Springs Uluru, Kata Tjuṯa and Kings Canyon Camping Safari Check out these two FUN Australian Outback Tours: 3-Day Ayers Rock, Olgas and Kings Canyon
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If you’re a Downton Abbey fan (and we are big time), you won’t want to miss seeing the “real Downton Abbey” the next time you visit London. Highclere Castle is the real-life inspiration and setting for the popular Emmy-award winning show. Since 1679, the Carnarvon family have lived in the castle (keep a lookout for
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