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Americas Travel: A Photo Journal of Santa Barbara Zoo & Botanical Gardens, California, USA

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Reading Time: 2 minutesIn this post we share photos from Santa Barbara Zoo & Botanical Gardens, California, USA.

This 30 acre space overlooks the Pacific Ocean, Andree Clark Bird Refuge, and Santa Ynez Mountains and is only a few miles from downtown Santa Barbara’s State Street.

From its beginnings in 1935 as an estate with landscaped gardens, the property has transformed into a self-policed community, then a park, and now it exists in its current state as the Santa Barbara Zoological Gardens, a public space estate for children, with animals, gardens, and play areas.

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USA Travel: Sights from Old Savannah Historic Overview Trolley Tour in Savannah, Georgia

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Reading Time: 3 minutesIn this post we share photos from our time on the Old Savannah Historic Overview Trolley Tour. This locally owned-and-operated tour company has been voted Best Trolley Tour every year since 2003.

Savannah’s heat and humidity makes it difficult to walk all day, so this ride offers a 90-minute snapshot of the city’s best sights and historical markers. The trolley brings you to 16 stops through the heart of downtown Savannah, with a lively driver and period actors providing historical details set against beautiful squares, architecture and streets.

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California Garden & Potager: Mulching before Rainy Season

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Reading Time: 2 minutesIn 2021 our focus is ongoing care and maintenance of what we began last year. We will highlight our thoughts from ideation to production, our observations, learnings and photos as the year progresses.
In 2021 our focus is ongoing care and maintenance of what we began last year. We will highlight our thoughts from ideation to production, our observations, learnings and photos as the year progresses.

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California Garden & Potager: California’s Bomb Cyclone

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Reading Time: 2 minutesCalifornia’s cyclone bomb and atmospheric river (the convergence of two storms) brought about floods, high winds and rains to the Bay Area. Our beloved Oak Tree toppled due to the high winds.
In 2021 our focus is ongoing care and maintenance of what we began last year. We will highlight our thoughts from ideation to production, our observations, learnings and photos as the year progresses.

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USA Travel: Monterey, California – Activity Recommendations

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Reading Time: 5 minutesThis is a list of activity recommendations for Monterey, California, USA.

Continue your tour of California’s coast by stopping through Monterey, California, named one of Expedia’s “Most Scenic West Coast Cities” in 2018. Just two hours south of San Francisco, and five hours north of Los Angeles, the city’s National Marine Sanctuary, Spanish-era adobes and John Steinbeck’s Cannery Row are sure to delight visitors.

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USA Travel: South Lake Tahoe, California in 3 Days, 2 Nights — Activity Recommendations

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Reading Time: 6 minutesThis is a list of activity recommendations for three days, two nights in South Lake Tahoe, California, a resort city that is situated on Lake Tahoe, the largest Alpine lake in North America.

This is not intended to be a comprehensive visitor’s guide to Lake Tahoe. Lake Tahoe’s many towns that dot its shoreline and surrounds each deserve their own consideration. For this reason, we plan to highlight our recommendations for things to do in separate posts.

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California Garden & Potager: Early Spring – A 2021 Permaculture Update

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Reading Time: 5 minutesCalifornia state’s 2020 stay-at-home orders had us shift our plans from travel to working on an at-home permaculture effort.

In 2021 our focus is ongoing care and maintenance of what we began last year. We will highlight our thoughts from ideation to production, our observations, learnings and photos as the year progresses.

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