Mandy Does SAN DIEGO!
This balmy curl of coastline is a funny mix, part military town, and part laid-back flip-flop town. It was a pair of world fairs that first put San Diego on the 20th century's map - in particular, its 1,400-acre BALBOA PARK, created to celebrate the Panama Canal's completion. Jonas Salk's discovery of the polio vaccine in the 1950s led the city to gift him a swatch of oceanfront in La Jolla to build a first-class research lab "worthy of a visit by Picasso." The result is the SALK INSTITUTE [visitors welcome]. Another doctor, with the last name of Seuss, settled here after WW11, and the Monterey cypress believed to have inspired The Lorax. - Wildsam Field Guides Blacks Beach is absolutely gorgeous - a must! XO, Mandy Z. Dive in. The Water's warm! ⛱