Quick Escapes from Los Angeles

Book excerpt: If you've had it with the daily grind, pack your bags, grab this guide, and hit the road! This handy, informative book includes 23 itineraries, travel directions, destination highlights, activities for morning and afternoon, choice restaurants and lodgings, special events and festivals, detailed maps, and shopping other local sources of information. You'll wander through a restored 1890's cowboy town, hunt for antiques and collectibles, have lunch in a bank vault, and sample some of the area's finest wines on the Temecula and Wineries Escape. Take a twirl around the world-famous Casino Ballroom, enjoy a glass-bottom boat trip, and dine in fine style at water's edge on the Santa Catalina Island Escape. Or explore the magnificent Palm Canyon, tour a desert wildlife center and botanical park, try your luck at a 24-hour casino, and leave room for a bit of after-dinner movie-star gazing on the Palm Springs/Coachella Valley Escape. With this handy guide at your fingertips, it's never a bad time to get out of town!