Most-viewed Travel stories of 2010

Welcome to the city Gourmet Ghetto, where the California food movement got its start. Decades later, it’s still an epicurean’s Eden. Nosh on some of the neighborhood’s best on Lisa Rogovin’s walking tour.

Here is one visitor’s view of two very different cities.

Traveling alone but still up for some company? Here are a few suggestions that balance solitude and socializing.

A recipe of rain and warmth will turn austere fields in the Borrego Valley, Joshua Tree, Lancaster, Mojave and Death Valley into wildflower paradises with brilliant colors.

Royal Caribbean’s Oasis of the Seas is huge -- it’s the world’s largest cruise ship, after all -- and a total blast -- from casinos to spas, it’s impossible to be bored. Call it Vegas and Disneyland, rolled into one.

Faced with pricey restaurants, what’s a budget-conscious visitor to do? Local food experts dish on the best deals for ‘ono kine.’

The hotels are betting that elaborate new pools will help everyone keep cool.

From dinosaur sculptures to sand dollar hunts to a redwood-draped trail, there’s plenty of places to burn off energy and relax on the trip north or south.

Rose City’s finest microbreweries offer stouts and ales that make it worth the trip.

Endangered because of climate change, it works to be friendlier to the environment.

From New York to Chicago to Seattle to L.A., a 3,582-mile journey on some of America’s storied trains, including the Empire Builder and the Coast Starlight. From the magnificent to the mundane, it’s a fine way to see the country.

Art and architecture rule in this Spanish seaside wonder transformed a century ago by Gaudi and the Modernistas.

Worried that your dining dollar won’t go far in the notoriously pricey Bay Area burg? Fear not: A panel of notable S.F. residents has crafted a list of 20 meals for under $20.

This California coastal city is the very definition of laid-back. Recent upgrades make it casually luxe too.

Drowsy alternative to Cabo San Lucas offers serious solitude for spring break

In Yellowstone, wildlife and Old Faithful still draw plenty of tourists. Nearby in tiny Cody, there’s a taste of the Wild West.

Even savvy travelers can overlook things.

Once an agricultural backwater, it is now a hip and eco-friendly part of Sonoma wine country.