Good Morning! It’s Saturday, February 8th
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Are you taking your furry friend along?
Planning a trip this coming spring or summer? Who do you most think about when taking a trip? Your Wife, kids, yourself? How about the family pet?
Many travelers travel with their pets and always look for pet-friendly places, which can sometimes make it harder to find where you want to go.
This week, Visit California has some great tips on where to go with your family pet and places they may enjoy.
Thinking about what to get for Valentine’s Day?
The kids are settled, and so is the pooch. It’s time for your downtime. How about a wine and chocolate tour in Southern California?
Only in California has come up with the perfect tour for you and your significant other to taste the best chocolates and wine in Santa Barbara.
Bring your walking shoes to this 3-hour tour of two boutique wineries and artisanal chocolates to pear along for an unforgettable Valentine’s Day!
Do you tend to speed?
You’re driving in San Francisco, and the traffic has been horrible. When it finally clears up, you want to rev the engine and take off. Who doesn’t?
Well, San Francisco has a new gift for you: speed cameras. These cameras will be on top of the other cameras, watching you from above the street.
Madilynne Madina of SF Gate has the details.
Do you know the California start to Sushi?
A particular street and city is where Sushi got its big start in California, and most sushi lovers don’t know this well-known now secret.
A Los Angeles street, Sushi Row, houses the highest concentration of Sushit restaurants outside of Japan.
Sushi Row, located in the San Fernando Valley on a street that houses rug shops and cafés, has been the catalyst for the rise of sushi in California and the United States.
Here is the complete story from Karen Palmer, Contributing LA Food Editor for SF Gate.
The cannons are restored!
Talk about returning to a great time. The cannon at the entrance to the Disneyland-themed Rise of the Resistance, a Star Wars staple at one time in the park, is firing again after a long delay.
The cannons have not operated since the park and attraction reopened in 2020 after COVID-19.
But, last Friday, they were operating again for your enjoyment, according to Katie Dowd, Managing Editos SF Gate
Here’s an asteroid story for you
It all started in 2023 when a black capsule the size of a mini fridge fell from the sky and landed in a Department of Defense training area in Utah. It contained samples collected from Bennu, a diamond-shaped asteroid billions of miles away, and had been traveling through the dark corridors of space for years.
The modest container held samples collected from Bennu, a diamond-shaped asteroid billions of miles away from Earth.
It has been discovered that it has ties to San Bernardino County’s Searles Lake.
Here are the details from Ariana Bindman, News Feature Reporter for SF Gate.
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