Traveling

Phoenix to Grand Canyon looks like a straightforward highway run on a map but the drive itself is the part most visitors underestimate. You’ll climb from 1,100 feet of desert…

Driving Flagstaff to the Grand Canyon feels shorter than most visitors expect and that surprises people who assume a national park this famous must sit hours from anywhere. The South…

Montezuma Castle Arizona doesn’t need a single ladder, hard hat or ranger escort to see up close and that surprises most first-time visitors who expect a strenuous ruin hike. The…

Cathedral Rock Sedona photographs like a gentle red rock backdrop and that photo is exactly why so many hikers underestimate it. The official trail is only 1.1 miles round trip,…

Los Angeles has 75 miles of coastline and most tourists spend all of it at Santa Monica Pier. That is a mistake. The best beaches in Los Angeles span from…

Most visitors picture La Jolla as one beach with sea lions. It is actually three distinct zones stitched together along 7 miles of cliffside coast, each with a completely different…

Most people think San Francisco is just the Golden Gate Bridge, fog and tech money. The moment you step off BART at Powell Street and hear a cable car bell…

North Beach San Francisco has no beach. It never did. The name stuck from the 1800s when the shoreline actually reached this part of the city, before landfill pushed the…