Iconic San Diego Spot to See Sea Lions Now Closed to Public — Here's Why

If there’s a city that’ll have you daydreaming about relocating to, it’s San Diego. With winter temperatures rarely dipping below 50°F, these beaches, parks, and oceanfront grills may be enjoyed year-round. Travelers who prefer to unwind with a bud rather than a beer are in luck; recreational cannabis is legal in California and San Diego has as many marijuana dispensaries as food trucks. That so, it’s not permitted to smoke in public areas or at hotels with smoking or vaping bans. Light up in the privacy of one of these cannabis-friendly Airbnbs in San Diego with outdoor space.

Northern California is the powerhouse behind the Golden State’s world-renowned wines but that fertile soil also lends itself to something greener. Recreational marijuana is legal throughout California as long as consumption takes place on private property. Smoking, vaping, and edibles aren’t permitted in many hotels in San Francisco but you can bring any dispensary purchases back to a boutique number of downtown SF Airbnb rentals and county hemp farms. Let’s weed out the cannabis-friendly Airbnbs in and around San Francisco for some above-board hashish.

United Airlines passengers en route from San Francisco to Tel Aviv endured a 14-hour "flight to nowhere" after the Palestinian militant group Hamas launched a surprise attack on Israel on Saturday.

I'm a theme-park journalist who's been covering happenings everywhere from California's Disneyland to Missouri's Silver Dollar City for over a decade, but for several years there was one event that was a hard "no" for me: Halloween Horror Nights at Universal Orlando.

For fans of nostalgia TV as well as avid animal and travel lovers, Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom is back in a big way. Sixty years ago, this beloved show innovated the nature adventure genre, enthralled viewers with its global destinations, won multiple Emmy Awards and galvanized conservation goals and gains. It offered an eagerly anticipated, families-gathered, weekly gaze at creatures in far-flung locales to a television audience that averaged 34-million Americans for much of its initial, astonishingly lengthy 25-year run. Between then and now, weaving through subsequent decades, Wild Kingdom had been transformed again and again, showcased on Animal Planet and as a web series. Now there is a fresh fourth project, the all-new Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom Protecting the Wild, which will premiere October 7 on NBC-TV (as part of its “The More You Know” programming block on Saturday mornings), as well as via NBC.com and NBC VOD. It is co-hosted by wildlife expert Peter Gros (who joined the original series in 1985) and wildlife ecologist Rae Wynn-Grant, Ph.D., a National Geographic Society research fellow and host of the PBS podcast Going Wild. Currently primed for 26 episodes set in North America, Wild Kingdom Protecting the Wild kicks off with journeys to California’s super-parched Mojave Desert for desert-dwelling tortoises, the Maine Coast for Atlantic puffins (nicknamed “parrots of the sea” because of their colorful triangular beaks), the Florida Coast for aqua-agile manatees and Austin, Texas, for high-soaring-quick-swooping Mexican free-tailed bats. I reached out to Gros and Wynn-Grant to share their behind-the-scenes insights and inspirations, as they forge modern Wild Kingdom paths, while still applauding the footsteps of legendary zoologists Marlin Perkins and Jim Fowler, who, as co-hosts of the documentary show’s dawn in 1963, put this legacy wildlife wonderland on the map.

It’s been years in the making—more than five to be exact—but at long last, Delta Air Lines passengers have a state-of-the-art 27-gate terminal at Los Angeles International Airport. In August, the Atlanta-based airline completed its $2.3 billion LAX project that began in 2018. The undertaking is part of a larger revamp of the entire airport, including the creation of an Automated People Mover (APM) and consolidated car rental facility.

SeaWorld is thrilled to announce it will open one-of-a-kind marine life themed rides and attractions in every SeaWorld park in Spring 2024.

SeaWorld has U.S. parks in Orlando, San Diego and San Antonio, and they have "whale-y" big news for what's to come in the new year: All three parks are slated to open family-friendly, marine life-themed attractions in 2024.

Driving through the dusty plains of Texas, the horizon is endless with views of rolling farmlands, miles of cornstalks, and cattle farms. While there is vast farmland as far as the eye can see, you will be surprised to learn that much of it is owned by only a few families. Many traditionally have kept their land through generations of heirs, but times are changing.

Marathons have long since been a draw for travelers. The host city not only attracts the actual marathon runners, but also friends and families showing their support as well as marathon enthusiasts who want a front-row seat of the action.

California may not be known for its fall foliage compared to states like Vermont or North Carolina, but that doesn't mean there aren't places you can go to see the changing colors of red, orange, and yellow.

“You’re here for the launch?” Ted Ebbers asked me the night of April 19, 2023, when we met on the beach of South Padre Island, Texas. The answer was obvious: We both were killing time before the next day’s scheduled flight of the world’s most powerful rocket. A recently retired Canadian federal employee, Ebbers, 58, drove from his home in Toronto to SpaceX’s spaceport in Boca Chica to watch his first rocket launch. He made the 1,900-mile trip alone, sleeping overnight at rest stops inside his Tesla Model Y.