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A Primeval Tide of Toxins
Times Staff WriterThe fireweed began each spring as tufts of hairy growth and spread across the seafloor fast enough to cover a football field in an hour. When fishermen touched it, their skin broke out in searing welts. Their lips blistered and peeled. Their eyes...Tags: Inflammation, Disasters and Accidents, Ronald Reagan, Bodies of Water, San Francisco
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Whale-watching tours and festivals along the Pacific
From the deck of a boat or a sandy shore, the California coast offers some of the best seats for watching the annual migration of gray whales.
Starting now, you can gaze west and see gray whales break the surface of the Pacific, cutting a 7,000-mile...Tags: Whale (animal), Adults, San Diego (San Diego, California), Long Beach (Los Angeles, California), Gardens and Parks
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On the trail of California's Mexican past
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterMonterey Welcome to Mexicalifornia. And no, I'm not talking about immigration policy or demographic trends or domestic hiring habits. I'm talking about that spell from the early 1820s to the late 1840s, when California, Alta y Baja, was Mexican. -------...Tags: Gardens and Parks, San Francisco, State Parks, Sacramento, Immigration
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In Pebble Beach, a week driven by elegant motoring
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterLaunched more than 50 years ago as a social gathering for the upper echelons of auto collecting and racing, the Concours d'Elegance in Pebble Beach, Calif., has evolved into a "holy week" for the motoring faithful. The festivities, spread across the...Tags: Concours d'Elegance, Los Angeles Times
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Calendar: Holiday events for November and December 2007
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterCALIFORNIA Santa Lucia Day Kingsburg marks its centennial in 2008, and to honor that coming milestone, 100 youths are set to participate in the Santa Lucia celebration this year: girls in white gowns with red sashes and wearing candle crowns and boys...Tags: Music Industry, Hot Cocoa, Arts and Culture, Jack Elliott, California
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Hot spots for whale spouts
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterWhite-capped waves etch the surface of the sea and then an explosion of air and water rockets into the sky. A gray whale, one of Earth's oldest species of mammals, heaves a white, showery fountain, slips back into the water and then arches a massive...Tags: Petroleum Industry, Whale (animal), San Diego (San Diego, California), Monuments and Heritage Sites, Gardens and Parks
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The usual suspects
CALIFORNIA FOR BEGINNERS For more details, including websites and phone numbers, see latimes.com/basics. -------------------- FOR THE RECORD: Mt. Whitney: An article in Sunday's Travel section about top spots to visit in California said Mt. Whitney...Tags: Palm Springs (Riverside, California), Inyo County (Califonria), Gardens and Parks, San Francisco, National Parks
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'Roughing it' at Ft. Hunter Liggett
![<i>"This is a unique destination where you are allowed on a military post, visit [one] of the 21 missions and stay overnight at Hearst's private lodge," says reader Lloyd van Horsen of Santa Barbara, in recommending Ft. Hunter Liggett.</i>](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-08/41585960-13171126.jpg "<i>"This is a unique destination where you are allowed on a military post, visit [one] of the 21 missions and stay overnight at Hearst's private lodge,\" says reader Lloyd van Horsen of Santa Barbara, in recommending Ft. Hunter Liggett.</i>")
Los Angeles Times Staff Writer"This is a unique destination where you are allowed on a military post, visit [one] of the 21 missions and stay overnight at Hearst's private lodge," says reader Lloyd van Horsen of Santa Barbara, in recommending Ft. Hunter Liggett. THE SETTING Ft....Tags: Farms, Dining and Drinking, Metal and Mineral, Foods and Beverages, Jean Harlow
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10 things you might not know about the summer of love
Tribune staff reporterAs Tracy Swartz observes in an accompanying piece, young people draw a blank on the 1967 crystallization of hippie culture known as the Summer of Love. But even veterans of the counterculture might not easily flash back to these 40 -year-old facts: 1....Tags: LSD, Jefferson Airplane (music group), Crimes, Grateful Dead (music group), Jimi Hendrix
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FBI on the Hunt for the 'Sleeves Bandit'
LOS ANGELES -- The FBI is on the hunt for a serial bank robber dubbed the "Sleeves Bandit" for what appears to be fake tattoo sleeves he has worn during several of the robberies. The "Sleeves Bandit" is believed to be responsible for at least fifteen...Tags: FBI, Bank Robbery, Crimes, Eyewear, Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, California)
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10 FOR THE ROAD
10 PLACES TO SEE BEFORE YOU'RE 10 From Travel+Leisure online: •American Visionary Art Museum, Baltimore •Colonial Williamsburg, Williamsburg, Va. •Disneyland, Anaheim, Calif. •Ellis Island, New York •Grand Canyon, Ariz....Tags: Williamsburg (Brooklyn, New York), New York, Williamsburg (Bronx, New York), Ontario (San Bernardino, California), Ellis Island
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Narrative travel
Special to the Tribune"Spiral Jetta: A Road Trip through the Land Art of the American West" (University of Chicago Press, $20; ISBN: 978-0-226-34845-2) Poor Erin Hogan. To call Ms. Hogan a nervous traveler is a bit of an understatement, which is not to say Hogan, director...Tags: Cruises, Car Guides and Reviews, Key West, New York, Arts
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