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Awakening to the sound of the sea never disappoints. This oceanfront cottage on the beach features a patio, private yard, and garage.  Or opt for a cozy modern cottage by the sea with everything you need for a nice relaxing beach day, including a cool AC for when you come in from that golden California sunshine.

Get a feel for the tiny home lifestyle by staying just steps from the state beach in a private studio with eye-catching wood accents and everything the minimalist you will need. This shoreline beach retreat offers a more high-end stay on a cliff across from “1,000 Steps Beach”. Enjoy the enclosed backyard, hot tub, and BBQ before you walk across the street to enjoy a beautiful sunset over the ocean. 

On your drive north, quickly stop in Pismo or head up to Santa Cruz. Take a soak in the cedar hot tub after settling into this relaxing, meditative, Romantic Retreat near the beach.  If you’re ready for more adventure, this cozy Beach Suite includes access to 2 electric bikes, two-person kayaks, surfboards, a hot tub, and two passes to Monterey Bay Aquarium!

Positioned high on a bluff, Mendocino Coasts’ Cliffside Cottage delivers a stunning view of the majestic Pacific Ocean. Soak under the stars in the hot tub to unwind, or dine at the Zagat-rated Ledford House restaurant, just a short walk away.  If you’re ready to put your hiking shoes on, explore the coastal forest adjacent to Russian Gulch State Park and marine reserve by staying in this Coastal Forest Cabin with access to the little-known South Headlands beach trail. A peaceful location, steps from the beach. 

Stroll among the Avenue of the Giants to the Camp Cabins in the redwoods. Hike, swim, kayak, and explore the 15-acre property any way you like. Hang around the campfire, BBQ & cook in the full outdoor kitchen.  

Need to be more remote for you? Retreat to the Klamath River to wildlife-rich Cook & Green Ranch, a tiny guest house where you can fish off a private beach, swim, kayak, whitewater raft, or hike the famous PCT, Pacific Crest Trail. 

Kinesiology taping before physical activity is an active contributor to the recovery of runner’s knee if you expect to maintain any fitness activity as your knee heals. The tearing, rupture, or inflammation are potential injury conditions; KT tape helps support, relieve pain, and normalize body mechanics without restricting motion or circulation.

As strengthening leg muscles supports your knee and reduces stress on your joints, your muscles tighten, which makes them more prone to injury. Stretching gently before and after physical activity provides flexibility, keeping muscles long and reducing soreness.

Unless you’re recovering from a known injury or surgery, alignment is a likely candidate for what’s aided your runner’s knee condition. While working out, shifts in our alignment occur and are used as a crutch, often due to fatigue or formulating unconscious pain. You promote minimal strain, maximum power, endurance, and movement by focusing on neutral alignment. 

Bike riding is effective at rehabilitating and strengthening the knee. With the pedal controlling movement in a stable position and your maintained focus on that alignment, keep your ride non-weight bearing and get to healing. Riding on flat terrain and keeping resistance low on stationary bikes is essential.

Knee-strengthening exercises help to build the muscles surrounding your knee, which provides support and alleviates strain on the joints. Alignment in mind, lunges, squats, heal dips, knee raises, and leg extensions benefit your routine. Adding holds and pulses builds your quadriceps and hamstrings in front and back of your legs, helping your knee joint absorb shock.

Improve your physical and mental health by working swimming into your fitness program. Low-impact, any experience level, grab your suit and a towel, find a good place to get in the water, and get out there to improve muscle conditioning while minimizing impact. Your ligaments, muscles, tendons, and mood will thank you later.

Stretch and strengthen anywhere, allowing time to check in and reflect. Build, tone, and sculpt small muscles while alleviating large muscle tension. Inhale - Breathe in through the front body. Exhale - Ground down through the back body.

Running is a great way to explore and connect deeply to a new environment. It allows you to see things you might not see otherwise. It’s a weight-bearing exercise that helps build strong bones and muscles and burn calories, leading to weight loss.

Dips are a compound and customizable exercise that works multiple muscle groups, including the chest, shoulders, triceps, and core. Use only your body weight, add extra weight, or adjust the position of your hands to target specific muscle groups.

Target and strengthen your core and leg muscles with single-leg movements like lunges, deadlifts, step-ups, and particular squats to activate stabilizing muscles. Improve coordination by forcing your spine and core to work hard to maintain balance.

Riding a bike while traveling is a great way to explore the terrain and get some exercise. It’s low-impact, easy on your joints, and helpful after sitting in a car for long periods. Cycling helps you explore more of your surroundings and meet new people. 

Consider packing your rackets and hitting a court at a local park along your route. Playing tennis is a low-impact sport that significantly increases agility and flexibility while lowering cholesterol, resting heart rate, and blood pressure. 

Immerse yourself in nature and beat the crowds, both sure to improve your mood and generate joy in appreciating beauty. Build stronger bones, muscles, and your relationship with the earth and each other. 

One of the most convenient and versatile exercises, plank protects your back and strengthens your core. Engage and pulse different areas of the body during your hold, focused on breathwork and alignment.

Submerge yourself in nature, quite literally, by finding a spot to swim along your travels. Swimming is a low-impact workout that offers calorie burning, endurance building, and resistance exercise.

Stretching before and after a workout makes your muscles more elastic, improving your overall range of motion or flexibility while also strengthening and toning small muscles.

When you exercise, blood vessels dilate, increasing blood and oxygen flow to your muscles. This temporarily increases your metabolic rate, energizing you.

 Cardio and resistance exercises improve physical health and endurance, including mental health, by reducing stress, anxiety, and depression and improving sleep quality.

A healthy lifestyle and daily exercise increase muscle tissue and white blood cells, helping your body reduce inflammation that occurs from damage done by injury and surgery.

 Endurance activities benefit a healthy heart and circulatory system, helping strengthen the heart's ability to pump blood and improve the circulatory system. 

Improve lean body mass by increasing metabolic rate and decreasing body fat. A high metabolic rate burns more calories at rest, so eat more without gaining weight.

Improving blood flow and maintaining hormones at optimum levels increases your ability to concentrate, helping everyday activities go as planned.

Physical activity increases epinephrine and blood flow and carries oxygen to the brain, allowing you to be more alert and aware of your surroundings and deal with stress.

Exercising, eating right, and managing stress are all important for your health and well-being. Exercise improves heart health, reduces stress, and increases energy.