Traveler's Guide

Seems like these days everyone is out hiking and outdoors taking fantastic pictures. Usually you have to drive a couple hours to get to a great hiking location and you end up having to tread up a mountain. Once you get to the top, your heart hurts and you are sweating bullets. It is fun and you take amazing pictures. Luckily if you are looking to get your heart pumping and also take some amazing pictures without a long drive, there is the Los Angeles Arboretum and Botanic Garden. There is a fee to enter the Arboretum but it is $9 for adults and $4 for children and there is free parking. The great thing about the Arboretum is that you walk for hours and see so much. It is located in the city of Arcadia, east of Pasadena and it is next to Santa Anita Park. It is located in a very urban area but once inside the Arboretum you no longer feel as if you are in the city. The Arboretum is 127 acres of plants, natural landscapes, wildlife, historical buildings, sitting areas, and plenty o...

Las Vegas is notorious for being the place to party. The motto is "what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas." Partying endlessly may sound appealing to some, others may be left thinking "where is the anime?!" Thankfully there is much else to see in LasVegas, especially if you are a fan of anime or superheroes. You can visit the Chinatown Mall. There is a wide variety of stores. There are many bakeries, cafes with boba, bookstores, markets, and plenty of eateries. There is a store called Great Wall Bookstore that has a great variety of products. There are boxes full of stickers, a table with a wide variety of journals, anime merchandise, Studio Ghibli merchandise, novelty items, purses, and a variety of Chinese books. This is a great location to find affordable anime items and stationary. Now if you are a fan of comic books, there is a really good comic book store in Las Vegas. It is called Alternate Reality Comics, located in Pioneer Plaza. There is a good variety of...

Las Vegas is a great and affordable location to travel to. Whether you like thrills, shopping, art, ambiance, scenery, food, architecture or just curious to see what Las Vegas has to offer, there is plenty to see. The beauty of Las Vegas is that it is ever-changing. One of the newest updates in Las Vegas is that many hotels are charging to park in the self-parking structures. If you are staying in a hotel that charges for self-parking, you will be charged $8 per day. There are still hotels that are free. To save some money on the trip, there are many free trams that connect you to different hotels and can leave you closer to other hotels, that way you don't have to worry about parking fees. A tram connects Monte Carlo, Crystal, and Bellagio. The benefit of this connection is that you can exit Bellagio and cross the street to Planet Hollywood and Paris.  A tram also connects Mirage and Treasure Island. Riding the tram systems can make walking through the strip much easier and ent...