by Ian Parkinson | May 1, 2019 | Community, San Luis Obispo, Travel
A few months back I told you about an exciting adventure I was going on to Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates. I had been selected, along with my good friend retired San Luis Obispo Police Lieutenant Bill Proll, by Special Olympics International to...
by Mark Nakamura | Mar 1, 2019 | Travel
After working 37 years as a teacher, I retired. To celebrate my newfound freedom, my wife and I took a road trip to see the fall colors of New England. On Labor Day 2018, we took off from San Luis Obispo, California and traveled to Boston, Massachusetts. We returned...
by Sherry Shahan | Feb 1, 2019 | Community, History, Morro Bay, People, Travel
February 2008. Four years after my first trip to Cuba I enrolled in the same dance program, with the same teachers, and was soon retracing my old routes on backstreets. I’d been in these neighborhoods dozens of times, yet they were never the same. I wanted it to...
by Sherry Shahan | Jan 1, 2019 | People, Travel
A Friday in February 2004, morning and sweltering, I’d flown directly from LAX to Havana as part of a cultural program—two weeks studying Afro-Cuban rhythms at Escuela Nacional de Artes (National School of the Arts). I left Hotel Palco in the municipality of Playa and...
by Ray Cauwet | Jan 1, 2019 | Business, Community, Nonprofit, Travel
It isn’t a zoo or a sanctuary for animals. Instead it’s an innovative park dedicated to the preservation of wild cats. It’s called Project Survival Cat Haven. Located on 106 acres at Dunlap, Calif., just west of Kings Canyon National Park, it specializes in...
by Tom Meinhold | Dec 1, 2018 | Community, Cover story, Nonprofit, People, San Luis Obispo, Travel
Longtime family friends of mind, Rich and Glenda Powell, have been involved with the local Honor Flight organization for years. They wanted to share this moving experience with our Journal Plus readers, and they offered to pay my way so I could do a story. If you know...
