They (Los Angeles Times) made me pick my nine favorite CA college towns. So of course Discover Claremont, CA and Visit Arcata had to be on there. But the others? Some close calls. latimes.com/travel/story/2…

A portion of my heart remains with Fresno State. But when the Best places to visit in Da Nang - Viet Nam made me list 9 favorite CA college towns, I had to leave out bigger, more sophisticated, less college-dependent cities like, ahem, Fresno, LA, SF and San Diego. Onward, bulldogs! latimes.com/travel/story/2…

Name you 9 favorite CA college town, the Best places to visit in Da Nang - Viet Nam said. So i came up with Visit Berkeley and Chico Chamber. But the rest of the list was tough.... latimes.com/travel/story/2…

Name your favorite Visit California college towns, the Los Angeles Times said. OK, I said. UC Davis and Stanford University (#paloalto). Now the other seven... latimes.com/travel/story/2…

The Best places to visit in Da Nang - Viet Nam let me pick my 9 favorite CA college towns, so Cal Poly Visit SLO CAL© and Visit Santa Barbara. As for the rest... latimes.com/travel/story/2…

The Best places to visit in Da Nang - Viet Nam wanted a list of my 9 favorite CA college towns. UC Santa Cruz Visit Santa Cruz County Bookshop Santa Cruz , i said. Also eight others... latimes.com/travel/story/2…

Happy Labor Day, and hoping for a fair, productive year ahead.

Congratulations, winners of Cultural Tourism in 2022 #SATWFoundation Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Awards: Taryn White, Honorable Mention; $zora O’Neill (Bronze); chris reynolds (Silver); Karen Schwartz (Gold). #SATW Nat Geo Travel Best places to visit in Da Nang - Viet Nam New York Times Travel Karen Schwartz

Congratulations to Christopher Reynolds chris reynolds who received three honors in the 2022 SATW Foundation Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Awards! Details below. 🎉👏 latimes.com/about/pressrel…

I just learned a lot about Big Sur, including where to stay next time. It's here with pix, including nepenthe, deetjen's, Big Sur River Inn, Big Sur Bakery and Henry Miller Library ... latimes.com/travel/story/2…

I never had a favorite shipwreck before. Now I do, and it's in Visit SLO CAL©, just above Cayucos. latimes.com/travel/list/bi…

Asking for a friend (I mean me): We want to hear your anonymous tales of fantastically failed New Year’s resolutions latimes.com/lifestyle/stor… (The deadline to get things off your chest and into my inbox is Dec. 5.)

Well, it was fun while it lasted. Highway 1 in #BigSur has been blocked by fallen rocks. Caltrans doesn't have a reopening estimate yet.

What's new in #LaJolla? Here are a few things I found. And winter is a fine time to explore -- not so many tourists. latimes.com/travel/list/la…

Hey, La Valencia Hotel, Ray Penfield, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla Info Center, The Taco Stand , Birch Aquarium -- you're in this story on winter ideas in La Jolla: latimes.com/travel/list/la…

Good news for lovers of #BigSur. CalTrans says it expects to have Highway 1 open again by the end of Thursday, weather permitting. bigsurcalifornia.org/highway_condit…

I went hiking into history in the canyons of #PalmSprings and found a culture that nearly died, great wealth and the ghost of jim morrison, sort of. latimes.com/travel/story/2…

I drove the length of Baja California. Here’s what happened. latimes.com/travel/story/2…

After months of painstaking (ice-cream-eating, trail-hiking, beach-walking, bookshop-roaming, restaurant-haunting, river-rafting, ostrich-feeding) research, here are the 101 best experiences in California, according to me in the Los Angeles Times: latimes.com/travel/list/10…

Deepest thanks to SFJ (Society for Features Journalism) for honoring me with first place in its Features Beat Writing Portfolio competition (based on 3 stories from '22). There are so many talented journalists without jobs now, I'm lucky and grateful to be writing at all.