Jim Farber

New (and Very Different) Galleries at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art

These aren't your typical organized galleries.

Travel August 27, 2026
The California Surf Museum: A Temple Dedicated to the Waves

Founded in 1986 (at 312 Pier View Way), you can't miss it, since its blue-and-white exterior resembles a ...

Travel August 13, 2026
An Illuminating Stroll Through Downtown Oceanside

An entire day spent on foot strolling through downtown and beachfront Oceanside can be an eye-opening experience.

Travel August 13, 2026
History Without Words: A Unique Way to Tell a Tribal Story

Every aspect of the spa was designed to celebrate the cultural history of the Indigenous Pechanga band—the Payomkawichum.

Travel July 8, 2026
Relax at El Cielo Resort and Winery in Mexico’s Valle de Guadalupe

Located amid 71 acres of rolling hillside vineyards, El Cielo can provide the perfect location from which to ...

Travel June 21, 2026
Days of Wine and Raptors at Mexico’s El Cielo Resort and Winery

Long shadows are spreading across the vineyards of the El Cielo Resort and Winery, setting its terra-cotta villas ...

Travel June 21, 2026
Frida Kahlo’s Casa Azul: ‘The Room Where It Happened’

Be advised, to pass through the wrought iron gates of the Casa Azul—the home of Frida Kahlo and ...

Travel May 31, 2026
Rivera’s Revolutionary Frescoes Are Mexico City’s Sistine Chapel

Diego Rivera took on a project that might have daunted even Michelangelo—to depict (in fresco) the entire history ...

Travel May 31, 2026
Exploring the Na Pali Coast Is Bucket-List Worthy

The Kalalau Trail has been described as the most dangerous hike in the world.

Travel October 19, 2025
A Trek Through the Kaua’i Jungle Yields Hidden Treasures

In 1992, Hurricane Iniki—the most powerful storm to strike Hawai'i in recorded history—slammed into Kaua'i.

Travel October 19, 2025
Surprises Await off Washington’s Major Highways

The first people of the land named it "the shimmering heat waves that dance and play above the ...

Travel April 28, 2024
The Treasures of Agua Dulce

This is the home of some stunning rocks and excellent wine tasting.

Travel October 22, 2023
Government and Much More in Olympia, Washington

Discover the capitol of the Evergreen State and everything it has to offer.

Travel September 24, 2023
Gig Harbor Is Washington With a Touch of Venice

It's a picture-perfect day as "O Sole Mio," the classic song of the gondolier, wafts over the water. ...

Travel September 3, 2023
See Tacoma Through Its Colorful Glass

In 1965, a talented young art student at the University of Washington named Dale Chihuly, who up to ...

Travel August 20, 2023
Be Totally Amazed by Tacoma

It tends to be true that after visiting Seattle, travelers head west to the Olympic Peninsula, north to ...

Travel August 19, 2023
Days of Wine and Warblers in Paso Robles

One of my friends is an avid birder. Her fascination combines a love of the outdoors with an ...

Travel June 25, 2023
The Grape Wild West: Touring and Sipping in Paso Robles

Once upon a time in the West, Paso Robles was a sleepy little railroad town in central California ...

Travel June 24, 2023
Cambria Is for the Birds and a Lot More

They call themselves birders, and come in almost as many varieties as the avian species they find so ...

Travel June 4, 2023
Destination: Cambria

Cambria, on California's Central Coast, is one of those special destinations. It offers a spectacular coastline with an ...

Travel June 3, 2023
Dining in the Yakima Valley Feels Like Family Because It Is

Look down on Washington's Yakima Valley in springtime and you'll see one of the great agricultural landscapes of ...

Travel March 12, 2023
Washington’s Yakima Valley: A Tale of Three Museums

It's said that the first white men to enter the vast region of the Yakima Valley were members ...

Travel February 26, 2023
White Pass, Washington, Has the Slopes Less Traveled

The sun was just coming up bright orange over Yakima, Washington, when my friends and I packed up ...

Travel February 25, 2023
Kalispell Is the Real Thing

A self-professed "blue-collar town," Kalispell, Montana, doesn't have the ski-town Old West vibe of nearby Whitefish. Its main ...

Travel February 12, 2023
What’s to Eat in Kalispell?

As long as humans have gathered in groups, the question of what's to eat has been a serious ...

Travel February 11, 2023
Kalispell, Montana: Winter’s Jumping-Off Point

"There are mountains," I was assured as my first day in Kalispell, Montana, and the Flathead Valley dawned ...

Travel February 5, 2023
The Whimsical, Wonderful, Unexpected Art of Davenport, Iowa

It is one of the most famous and easily recognizable paintings of the 19th century: Georges Seurat's "A ...

Travel October 30, 2022