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Fabian Toulouse's Articles in Travel and Leisure

  • A Bit of the Old West: Pasadena
    Once upon a time, back home in Indiana, each winter just kept getting colder and colder. Well, Dr. Thomas Balch Elliott brought together a group of 100 Hoosier families that were sick and tired of it all and headed west to California in 1873. The current inhabitants of the Valley were from Europe and considered by the California Indiana Colony to be quite industrious growing vineyards and orange groves. The colony purchased 4,000 acres of the San Pascual Ranch that would later become Old Pasadena with the deal concluding at Christmas time of that year.
  • The Western Rose: Pasadena
    Pasadena is a well known southern California city, being home of the Rose Bowl on New Year's Day, the JPL, the Norton Simon Museum of Art and other attractions. All of this in just one town near Los Angeles. Even if you've never been to Pasadena, you certainly know a bit about the city.
  • Life and the Lodge at Tiburon
    When deciding on a vacation look no further than the Lodge at Tiburon. This lovely coastal city is rich in natural abundance and history. Though Miwok Indians had called the area home for thousands of years, it was not until 1775 that the city got its name. Tiburon, which means "shark" in Spanish, was named by Lt. Juan Manuel de Ayala when he anchored in the peninsula. In spite of its menacing name, the area is one of the most gorgeous places in the world.
  • The Belamar: Fun In the Sun
    Everyone needs some time to relax and have an invigorating holiday. I planned a visit to one of the beach hotels in Manhattan, California. Eager, I zeroed in on the Belamar Hotel after hearing some positive word-of-mouth. Needless to say, I was not disappointed. Far from it!
  • The Benefits of Using GPS
    One of the fantastic things about technological innovation is that breakthroughs in one area produce inadvertent changes in other areas. No one would have believed that one side effect of the Soviet Union's launching the Sputnik satellite in the late 1950's would be a means for businesses to save money or parents to know if their teenagers are taking the car to a prohibited area of town. Indeed, that lone satellite inadvertently paved the way for the current web of satellites that enable GPS, or Global Positioning System, to operate.

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