
Visit the Flower Fields in Carlsbad
I had to wonder if I was in Holland or really in Southern California basking in the enormous flower field. Known for top rated beaches, cool surfing spots and snappy Legoland, Carlsbad, just north of San Diego city, is the motherlode of blossoming Ranunculus flowers. On a hillside just one exit from the Interstate 5...



Sausages keep on giving in the deli
Tip Top Meats, a well-known Deli and butcher shop in Carlsbad, opened in 1967 with owner John Haedrich making sausages and slicing meats. He’s 87 years old and to this day he adds a pinch of this and a pinch of that in his sausages. He still cuts meat by hand as a trained master...