It’s 11pm in Monterey and all is quiet. The summer crowds have gone home for the evening, and the only lights that remain on come from the trees that line...
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Given the shiny red poison oak leaves at the entrance to Fort Ord Public Lands’ Blair Witch Trail– and the dense thicket of oaks and chaparral behind them– it seems...
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In the crowded health and fitness industry, Carmel Valley’s Elisa Lodge stands out– in large part because she has created a cohesive new system that exercises the emotions as well...
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Given the shiny red poison oak leaves at the entrance to Fort Ord Public Lands’ Blair Witch Trail– and the dense thicket of oaks and chaparral behind them– it seems...
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French impressionist painter Claude Monet once said, “The richness I achieve comes from Nature, the source of my inspiration.” Claude would’ve liked Toro Park. From its breathing canvas burst buzzing...
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Surfers are supposed to be cool– smiling with their eyes half-open and speech half-slow, playing guitars on the beach, risking their jobs to ask for time off to surf. But...
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It sits deep in a virtually uninhabited redwood grove next to the biggest sequoia in the county: An old, beautiful swimming pool accented by a strip of yellow decorative tiles,...
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The tree was living before the Civil War, before Columbus sailed to the New World– even before the signing of the Magna Carta (that was 1215). This particular tree, called...
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They were calling the outdoors “great” long before Theodore Roosevelt was a bear cub. And, everybody with me now – it doesn’t get much greater than Monterey County. But let’s...
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