Posted By Erin on May 17, 2012
http://www.yelp.com/biz/vitos-italian-restaurant-pacific-grove
1180 Forest Ave. Ste. A
Pacific Grove, CA 93950
Another restaurant I discovered while staying in Pacific Grove. Conveniently located right across the street from the fabulous Little Chicken House.
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Posted By Erin on May 15, 2012
http://monarchresortmontereybay.com/
1111 Lighthouse Avenue
Pacific Grove, CA 93950
So, hot on the heals of my best ever review we get…this. As you can probably tell by a good chunk of the recent reviews, Roommate and I spent a week in the Monterey area and obviously needed a hotel to stay in.
The Monarch Hotel was chosen for it’s good location and decent enough prices. Sadly, this was a pretty bad mistake.
Posted By Erin on May 13, 2012
Placer County Fairgrounds
800 All American City Blvd.
Roseville, CA 95678
The Roseville Strawberry Festival is an event that takes place yearly in May (this year, sadly the same weekend as the Dixon May Fair. The Strawberry Festival was closer, so it won out, this time) at the Placer County Fairgrounds in Roseville, CA. The Festival is loaded with piles of strawberries, miscellaneous vendors, and a mini carnival-esq area for kids.
Posted By Erin on May 12, 2012
http://www.peppersmexicalicafe.com/
170 Forest Ave.
Pacific Grove, CA 93950
Pepper’s is a small mexican/southwestern/seafood restaurant in downtown Pacific Grove that is apparently quite popular with the locals, including our hotel desk clerk who recommended that we check it out.
Posted By Erin on May 11, 2012
http://www.beachboardwalk.com/home.html?noredirect=1
400 Beach St.
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Parked on the east coast of the Monterey Bay right next to the San Lorenzo River, the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk has been in operation since the early 1910s first with the Neptune building, followed by the Looff Carousel and then the famous wooden roller coaster, the Giant Dipper.
Posted By Erin on May 9, 2012
720 Cannery Row
Monterey, CA 93940
http://www.bubbagump.com/locations/monterey/
Inspired by the film “Forest Gump”, and socially the character Bubba’s obsession with shrimp, the Bubba Gump Shrimp Co opened it’s first location in 1996 and now has over 30 locations around the world (including one in Kuala Lumpur, interestingly enough). The very first location is on Cannery Row where I stopped for lunch after checking out the Monterey Bay Aquarium.
Posted By Erin on May 8, 2012
http://www.montereybayaquarium.org/
886 Cannery Row
Monterey, CA 93940
Opened in 1984 and situated on the site of a former sardine factory on the world-famous Cannery Row, the Monterey Bay Aquarium is one of the most famous aquariums in the world. Situated directly on the bay (and in some cases, somewhat over the bay) the aquarium houses over 1,000 animals and plants with 623 different species.
Posted By Erin on May 7, 2012
1193 Forest Ave,
Pacific Grove, CA 93950
The roommate and I first spotted this tiny little restaurant as we were driving on the way to our hotel for our vacation in the Monterey Bay area. We might have completely passed it without notice if we hadn’t seen the smoke rising from the outdoor smoker. As that’s not a sight you see often, we were intrigued enough to return for dinner after checking into our hotel.
Posted By Erin on April 29, 2012
Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park
http://www.parks.ca.gov/?page_id=484
310 Back St.
Colma, CA 95613
Price: $8 per car for a day pass.
In the 1840′s John Sutter was hanging out in what would become Sacramento trying to get his shiny new fort (shockingly enough, named Sutter’s Fort) up and running. Being as this was back in the Days of Dirt, the best building supplies at the time were timber. Luckily for Sutter, there was a fantasic source of trees right up in the hills.
Posted By Erin on April 26, 2012
http://www.thaibasilrestaurant.com/
Originally opened in 1996 at it’s Roseville location, Thai Basil has since expanded to three more locations in Midtown Sacramento, Lincoln and Laguna. Thai Basil has also won BOTH Sacramento Magazine and Sacramento News and Review’s Best Thai evey year since 2001, which is muchly unsurprising as it is damn tastey.
Email: Eriu@hotmail.com
