{"id":25624,"date":"2018-12-13T14:47:16","date_gmt":"2018-12-13T22:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=25624"},"modified":"2018-12-13T14:47:16","modified_gmt":"2018-12-13T22:47:16","slug":"loving-laguna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/loving-laguna\/","title":{"rendered":"Loving Laguna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/luvlag.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>LAGUNA BEACH, CALIF. &#8212;\u00a0Laguna is a place to step out of the daily hustle and bustle, dig your feet into the sand and savor life, according to author Skip Hellewell, who first saw it on a field trip with a group of Boy Scouts intent on learning how to surf in 1958.<\/p>\n<p>Skip fell in love with the quaint town and never forgot it. After a very successful career with medical device companies around California, he was able to live in Laguna Beach and figure out why it&#8217;s so unique.<\/p>\n<p>The author and newspaper columnist wrote a fascinating book, &#8220;Loving Laguna,&#8221; which was deliciously designed by his daughter, Brooke Hellewell Reynolds.\u00a0Using historical and modern photos, the reader can begin understanding why Laguna Beach has been one of the most dazzling, desirable destinations to live or visit anywhere.<\/p>\n<p>To find out more about this amazing place\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/authors\/skip-hellewell.html\">read the book review by Craig MacDonald&#8230;<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n<p>SeeCalifornia Loves Laguna Beach, too!<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>This is the last weekend to catch the annual Sawdust Festival <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/laguna-beach-sawdust-winter.html\">Winter Fantasy<\/a>\u00a0where artisan gifts and a festive holiday atmosphere fill the Laguna Canyon venue with Christmas cheer!<\/li>\n<li>\u00a0Hellewell&#8217;s book doesn&#8217;t overlook the famed Laguna Beach character who was known as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/art\/laguna-beach-greeter.html\"> The Greeter<\/a>.\u00a0During his lifetime, Eiler Larsen often stood at the corner of Pacific Coast Highway and Forest Avenue, waving to the cars passing by.<\/li>\n<li>With dozens of diverse beaches to see, Laguna Beach is a unique destination recognized as the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/beaches\/laguna-beach\/skimboarding.html\">birthplace of skimboarding<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAGUNA BEACH, CALIF. &#8212;\u00a0Laguna is a place to step out of the daily hustle and bustle, dig your feet into the sand and savor life, according to author Skip Hellewell, who first saw it on a field trip with a group of Boy Scouts intent on learning how to surf in 1958. Skip fell in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25624"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25624"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25624\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25625,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25624\/revisions\/25625"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}