by Sherry Shahan | Aug 1, 2019 | Travel
SANTA BARBARA IS MY HAPPY PLACE, A PLACE TO lose myself on the beach boardwalk, breathing briny sea air thick with the caw of gulls. This time I drove down to explore the Funk Zone: a 10-square-block area of old warehouses, manufacturing and industrial plants. The...
by Sherry Shahan | Jun 1, 2019 | Travel
Everyone I talked to, including the guy bagging my groceries, had hiked Mount Whitney, 14,491 feet. Sure, it’s the highest peak in the lower forty-eight with well-marked routes. By some accounts, these trails are the most heavily traveled in the United States: Some...
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...
