Los Angeles & San Diego Trip with Family October 2002. Enjoyed the beautiful flowers at Descanso Gardens, a short 20 minutes drive from downtown LA. The garden is a 160 acres, internationally renowned botanical collections and spectacular seasonal horticultural displays. There is a 5 acre Rose Garden has more than 3,000 roses represent centuries of horticultural history and dozens of regions from ...

Labor Day vacation and dining at Manara Moroccan Restaurant with Belly Dancing show, everyone sat on cusions or a couch and they brought out each course on a giant plate that everyone dug into with their hands. The food was delicious and the atmosphere and lighting of the place was amazing. We also had dinner at the Chart House enjoying the Labor Day Fireworks. We went rafting at Truckee River...

Central, the main business district, is where one'll best sense Hong Kong's capitalist heartbeat; the Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank building is right in the middle of Central with a unique structural design. Behind the bank, there's a footpath beside old banyan trees to St John's Cathedral. Also near the bank is one of Hong Kong's most elite shopping malls. Elsewhere are far more lived-in city distr...

We drove down Highway 1 through Santa Cruz and reached Monterey, the trip features one spectacular view after another. We stopped at Steinbeck's Cannery Row, once an industrial street famous for sardines and known for the characters in John Steinbeck's novel "Cannery Row". There are shopping and activities on the beautiful shoreline of Monterey and visited the Bay Aquarium with all kinds of differ...

Squaw Valley opened in 1949 with one chair lift, a rope tow, and a lodge. Today, Squaw Valley USA is one of the world's premier destination resorts with year-round recreation and first-class accommodations. One of Squaw Valley's most notable achievements, and a turning point in the development of California skiing, was Squaw Valley's hosting of the 1960 Winter Olympics. We ski at the Squaw Valley ...

Camping is one of the most popular recreation activities in the Sierra National Forest. Huntington lake is located 65 miles Northwest of Fresno. Whether you are interested in hiking, biking, camping, backpacking, picnicking, driving off-highway, fishing or any of the other popular recreational activities, this is the place to be.

Trip to Beijing and tour the vast Tiananmen Square - Gate of Heavenly Peace. Built in 1417, the square is the largest open-urban square in the world, and is much larger than Russia's Red Square. With total area of 440,000 square meters, Tiananmen Square can hold one million people and the national flag is raised exactly at sunrise and lowered at sunset everyday by the soldiers. To see the flag-rai...

Tahiti is the modern traveler's gateway to French Polynesia. The capital city, Papeete, is a major shipping crossroads which curves around what is still French Polynesia's busiest harbor. There wasn't even a village here until the 1820s, when Queen Pomare set up headquarters along the shore, and merchant ships and whalers began using the harbor in preference to the less protected Matavai Bay to th...