The Getty Villa – Pacific Palisades, CA
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San Diego Botanic Garden – Encinitas, CA
First point – this garden is in San Diego County, not San Diego itself. Little bit up the coast actually. In case you were planning a quick jaunt across town from your hotel room… Second, this is where our membership at the Coastal Maine Botanical Garden really pays off. We get
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San Diego Zoo, San Diego – CA
The San Diego Zoo really is amazing. I’d always known it was one of the best zoos in the country, and it lived up to the hype. (Really, the only thing I was a little meh about was the gondolas – the Sky Train, or something like that, for a proper name
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A Thousand Days in Tuscany – Marlena de Blasi
I read the precursor to this book – A Thousand Days in Venice – quite a while ago. In that book, the author had thrown her life in the US over to go to Italy and marry a man she didn’t know very well. The first book is the story of her learning
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Daughter of Witches – Patricia C. Wrede
Ranira is a bond servant, more or less owned by an innkeeper after her parents were killed for being witches. She knows they were innocent, but that didn’t stop them from dying. When some foreigners make arrangements to stay in the city, even though the biggest religious festival of the year
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The Raven Boys – Maggie Stiefvater
Blue’s the only member of a clairvoyant family that can’t see the future- what she does do is help others see more clearly. The only thing her mother will share about her future is that if she kisses her one true love, he will die. So she’s decided she won’t kiss any boys
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