Timothy Reynold’s Blog

I’d like to make a suggestion for a summer vacation travel destination where you can find a great deal of variety in the type of local attractions offered.  We are all different in exactly what we’d like to do during our summer travel.  Some of us want to visit Disneyland and some just want to relax on the beach.  For others it is visiting the local museums or hiking or deep sea sport fishing.

One of the most well-known vacation attractions in Southern California is the resort area around Disneyland; this includes the Downtown Disney retail entertainment center and California Adventure, on which Disney is spending around one billion dollars over the next few years.

Anyone who has not visited Anaheim in awhile will be surprised at its evolution over time.  California Adventure exhibits the diversity of California culture, from citrus orchards to downtown Los Angeles to the northern California Wine Country.    It is a great place for people watching—a veritable cultural melting pot.

There are not a lot of other places in the world where you’ll find such a complex melting pot of nationalities as in Southern California.  Although there are often visitors from Europe, Africa and Asia, the countries along the Pacific Ocean are particlularly well represented.

You’ll find quite a number of ethnic communities scattered throughout Southern California, and worth a visit in your summer travel activities.  These include Chinatown, Little Tokyo and Koreatown in Los Angeles County.  Some of the best-known ethnic communities in Orange County include the Vietnamese community in Little Saigon, and the Hispanic community around Fourth Street in Santa Ana.