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Pack your passion

C'mon, spread those wings. Whatever it is you fantasize most about doing (scaling cliffs, sculpting clay, spotting grizzlies, digging up fossils, throwing out runners, knitting mttens, penning stories, cooking for 20, cruising the coral), there's an adventure vacation waiting for you.

Edited by Sarah Mueller Bossenbroek and Matt Bloom

Choose a trip from the list below. Or just click on the first trip and browse from there.

Bear watching
Playing tennis
Diving
Writing
Woodworking
Fishing
Practicing yoga
Kayaking
Knitting
Car racing
Cooking
Rock climbing
Golfing
Skiing
Working with clay
Mushroom foraging
Dino digging
Surfing
Painting
Windsurfing
Ranching
Rafting
Biking
Playing baseball

WEEKENDER

Under Reno-vation

For much more than a martini-shaking, poker-playing weekend (though you can have that, too), put the pedal to the metal and check out all Reno has to offer.

TRAVEL

Solage, take me away!

The resort that can do no wrong opens a big-kids-only spa.

WEEKENDER

Under Reno-vation

For much more than a martini-shaking, poker-playing weekend (though you can have that, too), put the pedal to the metal and check out all Reno has to offer.

STREET DETAIL

Oakland's urban suburbia

The timeless Grand Lake district welcomes you, and everyone else, with open arms.

STREET DETAIL

SoMa junction

Beyond ballpark interlopers and skyscraping luxury condos, a real neighborhood is develĀ­oping far south of Market.

WEEKENDER

Central perk

Call up friends in Los Angeles and meet in the middle for a winter weekend getaway in the Victorian coastal town of Cambria.

NIGHT WATCH

Passage to India

The hypercharged bhangra beat has them sweating to the dholis.

RESTAURANT SEARCH

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