Alcatrez America's Best Tourist Attraction

Visting Alcatraz America’s Best Tourist Attraction?

The famous prison located on Alcatraz Island is right off the city of San Francisco.  As such it makes an easy trip for visitors to the city.  However, this is not a spur of the moment activity.  In 2015 a number of features came out suggesting that Alcatraz was one of America’s best tourist attractions. …

Finding Specific Hotels with Better Bidding on Hotwire and Priceline

Travel Discounts: Finding Specific Hotels with Better Bidding on Hotwire and Priceline

Over the years we have had great success getting significant travel discounts on hotels using Hotwire and Priceline.  These sites have regular listings for hotels, but the discounts usually come from paying for an unknown hotel.  Because you don’t know the name of the hotel until after you book, you can get a bargain price…

Central Los Angeles: Original Farmers Market and La Brea Tar Pits Guide

Central Los Angeles: Original Farmers Market and La Brea Tar Pits Guide

This our guide to visiting two attractions in the heart of Los Angeles, the Original Farmers Market and the La Brea Tar Pits. Los Angeles is a crowded sea of humanity with seemingly no escaping the constant flow of traffic.  It wasn’t always that way.  Los Angeles started to grow in the late 1800s driven…