On Becoming a "Local" and not merely another "Just-Arrived"

When summer comes to the Central Coast three things most assuredly come with it – morning fog along the coast, tourists congesting our roads and highways, and lots of free music. The various summer concert series are the events where locals tend to outnumber the tourists. Among them are:
Tuesday – “Tuesdays in the Park” at [...]

One relatively simple thing truly separates the locals from the tourists – when the orchestra of emergency sirens plays to full crescendo up and down the coast we take it in stride because we know it’s a test, only a test.
It might be argued to be a phenomenon similar to the 1938 broadcast of War [...]

Fran Lebowitz opined, “vegetables are interesting but lack a sense of purpose when unaccompanied by a good cut of meat. “ Personally, I enjoy almost every form of produce prepared most any way with or without a side of animal protein. This makes the Central Coast, with its year-round growing and harvest seasons, the perfect [...]