The SFGate published an article on Encinitas recently. Here are some excerpts.
The Pacific Coast Highway, technically, is all of Highway 1, but anyone who grew up during the Beach Boys' reign knows the PCH begins at California's southern latitudes. Its laid-back, close-knit beach towns meant sun, sand and freedom from care to legions of young people.
Encinitas, halfway between San Clemente and San Diego, is a vestige of classic California beach culture that has all but succumbed to stratospherically priced homes inhabited by a generation to whom "working on myself" means attaining washboard abs rather than enlightenment. But partly because Swami's Beach remains a holy grail to hard-core surfers, good vibrations endure here.
Diversions include watching world-class surfing, exploring the 100-year-old downtown and meandering in soul-soothing gardens. If you need a vacation from life as well as work, this is the place...
Today, the city is known for its multitude of beaches, its flower growers, its mildly oddball character and the surf break immortalized by the Beach Boys' "Surfin' USA."
Spend your day: Morning is best for visiting the Self Realization Fellowship's Meditation Gardens, a beautifully landscaped bower of pathways and secluded nooks lining the bluff overlooking Swami's Beach. You can sit as long as you like to contemplate life, God, nature or surfing. There's no charge (though donations are welcome) and no proselytizing.
Swami's is a narrow, rocky beach not suited to sunbathing or swimming. A better choice is Moonlight State Beach in the center of town. Its broad, flat sands lie at street level, festooned with volleyball courts, a playground, snack bar, picnic area and fire pits.
To explore the century-old historic downtown district, download the downtown association's walking tour and map (select the "Encinitas" menu on its Web site). The centerpiece, La Paloma Theatre, was built just before "The Jazz Singer" came out in 1927 and was one of the first to show talkies. The intricately designed wooden ceiling is a show in itself.
Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2010/06/06/TRTL1DMKB1.DTL#ixzz0rJy2UTQy
That article needs revision. There isn't much of a historic downtown left after the building of the ghetto-like Pacific Station.
ReplyDeleteit was odd that she failed to mention the monstrosity they have built in the "historic downtown"
ReplyDeletei would have loved to see faces at hansens when they read the "don't bother section"
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ReplyDeleteReally. What a surfacy article on Encinitas. But what can you expect from an author who has to put in her 2000 words just so the ads don't clash in that SF rag.
ReplyDeleteAnd what a slam to Hansen's, geesh.
1. if you think that the SF Chron is a rag you clearly haven't picked up a UT in over 20 years. at least there's news in there. this morning there was a travel article about Arizona, lifted from the New York News Service in the UT.
ReplyDelete"Let's all travel to Arizona, in the summer!"
There's a reason why every other car on the road in SD has a AZ or NV plate on it, those states suck arse and are hotter than Sarah Palin at an old white guy republican strokefest.
2. 2000 words!? more like 750... most of the time these articles get written are because the reporter is on vacation and it's a good way to call it business.
3. and yeah... Hansens sorta sucks. how much surf crap can you pack in there?
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ReplyDeleteI stand corrected. How impressionable I am.