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Oceanside is popular with San Diego visitors
By CARY ORDWAY
If you're going to name a town for its greatest asset, the town fathers of Oceanside seem to have got that one right. Today more city than town, Oceanside is dressing up the city's three and a half miles of wide, sandy beaches by bringing in new waterfront hotels, trendy restaurants and expensive homes and condos that all combine to beckon tourists from literally around the world.
The city also is proud of nearby Camp Pendleton, the massive Marine Corps training center and the only thing that keeps the Southern California coastline from being one big city. Without the 20 miles of shoreline set aside for Pendleton, the city no doubt would begin in Santa Monica and end in San Diego.
The old rap on Oceanside was that it was a military town and not the place to invest millions in your new beachfront home. All of that has changed as the tiny beach bungalows have given way to lavish new homes while the city has attracted businesses and resort infrastructure so inviting that 17 percent of visitors come from Europe. Visitors have long enjoyed the robust selection of vacation rentals in Oceanside, but now hotel and resort-goers are finding many more hotel options with a good selection of restaurants and tourist attractions sprinkled into the mix.
And, while you're sure to see young members of the military enjoying those incredible beaches and Oceanside's many other attributes, this is not your Grandpa's 'military town.' Today's military is made up of bright, hard-working 20- and 30-somethings who chose to join up for all sorts of good reasons. Having these people around is a big plus, not a negative.
Oceanside also is close enough to San Diego — about 38 miles — to make it a viable base of operations for visitors who want to be a little ways out of the city congestion, but close enough to get in and visit SeaWorld, the San Diego Zoo and other San Diego attractions.
On our most recent visit to Oceanside, we stayed at the Wyndham Ocean Pier Resort, which opened in early 2008. With arguably the best location in the city — right across
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| Bigfoot experts coming to Santa Cruz area | 07-24-2008 |
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If you have not come across Bigfoot yet in your California travels, stop by the Bigfoot Discovery Museum in Felton (Santa Cruz area) on August 9. The museum is hosting two of the biggest names in sasquatch research, Dr. Jeff Meldrum and Richard Noll, who will be joined by bigfoot authors Kathy Moskowitz Strain and David Paulides in a four-hour mini-conference on sasquatch starting at 5:30 p.m. at the local Community Hall...The best place to meet under the clock in San Francisco is back as the Great Magneta Grandfather Clock has returned to its original place of glory – in The Westin St. Francis historic Main Lobby. The return of the clock complements the restoration of the Main Lobby and the July 15th opening of the Clock Bar...More than 20 tall ships and fascinating vessels from around the world will participate in the 2008 Festival of Sail, hosted by the Maritime Museum of San Diego , August 20 – 24. The festival begins with a majestic parade of tall ships on San Diego Bay followed by a showcase of marvelous food and drink, one-of-a-kind shopping and live entertainment, including live cannon battles between several of the vessels...
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