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24 REDISCOVERING CALIFORNIA’S COAST

Our pandemic road trip was a great success:
Weeks after our magical adventure spanning
California’s coast, from San Diego to Mendocino,
we’re still healthy and remarkably refreshed.

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“So, where are you girls headed?” the taxi
driver asked, casting a sidelong glance at his
passengers as we inched through rush hour
traffic beneath the paper lanterns and
painted pagodas of San Francisco’s China-
town. “Niles,” my friend Shareen chirped.
“You know it?”

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With intercontinental travel curtailed during
this era of COVID 19, exploring destinations
closer to home might be a good way to take
care of wanderlust. The road trip my husband
and I took before COVID set in perfectly fits
the bill.

Amy Laughinghouse

London-based writer and photographer Amy Laughinghouse has attempted to
overcome her fears (and sometimes basic common sense) through her adven-
tures in 30 countries around the world. She dishes on the perks and perils of glo-
betrotting for publications like LonelyPlanet.com, AAA Journey Magazine,
Virtuoso Life, and The Dallas Morning News. Her travel tales can also be found on
her website, www.amylaughinghouse.com.

Jody Jaffe & John MuncieMuncie

Jody and John are award-winning journalists and novelists. John is a Lowell
Thomas Award-Winner and was feature editor of The San Diego Union-Tribune,
arts editor of The Baltimore Sun and writer-editor-columnist for the travel de-
partment of The Los Angeles Times. Jody was a journalist at the Charlotte Ob-
server, where she was on a team that won the Pulitzer Prize. Her articles have
been published in many publications including The New York Times and The Los
Angeles Times. They live on a farm in Lexington, Va.
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