Carlsbad area |
- Legoland (for builders of all ages)
- The Crossings Golf Course (the course where we're holding Sunday night's dinner
is
gorgeous)
- Green Dragon Tavern & Museum (good food and small but fascinating
American Colonial History museum)
- Best rated Breweries – tours, tastings
- Temecula – Wine tasting
- Of course, The Museum of Making Music,
and we're holding the Gathering there!
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Coming in your RV? There
are plenty of campgrounds and parks within a 30 mile radius. Check
the Good
Sam Club for a list.
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San Diego area |
- Balboa Park - museums, gardens, sports,
hiking, architecture & more
- San Diego Zoo (arguably the nation's
finest, and I should know; you do know Gregg was a zookeeper
once, right?)
- San Diego Zoo Safari Park (if you don't
do zoos, do this)
- The Beach (anywhere: marinas, roller
skating, Sea World, etc.)
- Hotel del Coronado (oft
used as a film location: Some
Like it Hot, The Stunt Man, Beyond the Rocks, My Blue Heaven)
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North of
Carlsbad (Orange
County) |
- Disneyland (Gregg's second home. Now
twice as big with California Adventure)
- Bowers Museum (the Tao boat in the lobby
appears on SB's Tribute CD cover; always has great special
exhibits)
- Discovery Cube (nice Science Center for
all ages)
- Knott's Berry Farm (for Wild West and/or
Snoopy fans, rides galore)
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Farther North
(Los Angeles County) |
- Long Beach (the iconic Queen Mary and
Aquarium of the Pacific)
- Hollywood, the land of dreams (for obsessive tourists only)
- Universal Studios - amusement park and
tours (already worth a
visit, but now includes the wonderful Harry Potter World)
- Paramount
Pictures or Warner Brothers Studios - tours
- Griffith Park Observatory (currently
with resident mountain lion in the park)
- The Getty Museum & the Getty Villa (both favorites)
- Natural History Museum - dinosaurs,
gems, California history
- California Science Center - Space
Shuttle Endeavor
- Pasadena - Huntington Library & Gardens (the best of our
grand estates turned into public destination spots)
- Car Museums (two of the very best: Peterson
Automotive Museum and Nethercutt Museum, which also has a stunning
collection of automatic musical instruments)
- The Miner Museum of Vintage, Exotic
& Just Plain Unusual Musical Instruments
- Beaches (up the entire coast: Venice,
Santa Monica, Malibu)
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