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...
by Sherry Shahan | Nov 1, 2018 | Business, Community, Creston, Food, Travel
I’d been hankering to drive by Whispering Winds Ranch in Creston, where I lived in the early 1980s. I learned to cook fish in a dishwasher and barbeque Rocky Mountain Oysters (which has nothing to do with bivalve mollusks) in this house. The 160-acre ranch was...
by Charmaine Coimbra | Oct 1, 2018 | Community, Travel
While the rest of the country takes their steps into fall, covered in woolen jackets, thick socks and boots, Central Coast folks head to the beach. The winds are light or nil, the weather warm, and the crowds have joined the rest of the country raking leaves. And...
