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As much of Vallejo tourism is based around Six Flags Marine World, here you can find lots of hotels that offer packages for overnight and park tickets. You can find more about these at the visitor’s website. Also, the park offers season passes for not much more than a regular ticket. The deals are worth checking out at Marine World’s website. Share / Save / Send

To me Fairfield is a city that is half way to everywhere. Though it can’t compete with the culture of the bay area, or the wineries of napa valley, or political ties coming from the Sacramento valley, Fairfield is the mid-way point for all of these points of interest. If you wanted a home-town feel for a home-base to explore all over northern California, Fairfield is your place. Share / Save / Send

To borrow a phrase from the Berkeley Visitor’s Bureau, Berkeley is “consummately Californian in its setting – but international in its cultural landscape”. Berkeley is densely populated, so it seems that anywhere downtown you could explore an eastern Indian clothing store, pop into an Ethiopian restaurant, stop in a yoga studio for a tai chi class, or find something new you’ve...

I have always been both fascinated and intimidated by San Francisco.  Here is a place where cultures converge, where the history is fascinating, where neighborhoods are given their own name and status.  It is also a place where I have gotten lost countless times, have sat in traffic for what seemed like days, and where I swore I would never return without my own personal navigator. I have often wondered how...

San Jose is known as “silicon valley” due to all the high-tech silicon chip type businesses that this region attracts. This area is so densely populated, you can leave one city and enter another without knowing it or even turning off from your street.  Though you do have to be mindful of high traffic times of the day while traveling, the high population also lends itself to diverse exploration...