Family Vacation Critic reports: Ocean Front caters to outdoorsy people with Hamel's Surf Shop offering kayaks, surfboards, bikes and beach toys. Surfers have an alternative at FlowRider, a man-made wave generator machine that is easier for beginners to learn on. FlowBarrel also creates 10-foot waves for pros. A few minutes from the boardwalk, Belmont Park is an amusement … [Read more...] about Mission Beach Is a “Best Beach Boardwalk for Families”
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Coronado Beach Makes Parents Magazine’s “10 Best Family Beaches”
Coronado Beach was crowned the #4 beach in Parents Magazine’s 2011 “10 Best Family Beaches” in America, running in their June issue: http://www.parents.com/fun/vacation/ideas/best-family-beaches/?page=5 --Robert Arends … [Read more...] about Coronado Beach Makes Parents Magazine’s “10 Best Family Beaches”
San Diego Union-Tribune Quotes Joe Terzi on San Diego Accolades
San Diego Makes "Best of" Vacation Lists By Lori Weisberg It's probably no surprise to San Diegans that the city is a popular tourist destination, but now U.S. News & World Report is trumpeting San Diego's appeal in its latest best vacation rankings. In the magazine's list of the 21 most popular vacation spots in the U.S., San Diego ranks No. 3, right behind San … [Read more...] about San Diego Union-Tribune Quotes Joe Terzi on San Diego Accolades
BBC Reports San Diego Has One of America’s “Coolest City Parks”
“America’s coolest city parks” originally appeared in Travel + Leisure and made the front page of BBC over the weekend: http://www.bbc.com/travel/gallery/20110419-americas-coolest-city-parks. Travel + Leisure also includes the following blurb on the parks relationship to the city: “Parks play a big role in making a city desirable for both locals and visitors. It’s easy to … [Read more...] about BBC Reports San Diego Has One of America’s “Coolest City Parks”
Sunset Calls San Diego the West’s “best place to live to hatch big ideas”
Tracking San Diego’s innovation economy is a bit like counting plants in the Amazon: Just when you think you’re getting somewhere, a thousand new wonders sprout up behind you. Carry a smartphone? It almost certainly contains technology pioneered by local wireless giant Qualcomm. Buy a new computer recently? That smaller, faster chip inside was likely made possible by a … [Read more...] about Sunset Calls San Diego the West’s “best place to live to hatch big ideas”