Connie Young Travel Journalist

Connie Young has distinguished herself as a publicist and promotions executive for over 30 years specializing in community relations, special events and destination travel writing.

BIO

Connie Young's Credits include editor, Pacific Breeze Adventures, and supplier of destination event information to CNN, the National Geographic Channel, NBC News, the BBC, the New York Times, TV Guide Magazine, Time Warner Cable, KOCE-TV and the Queen Mary, Long Beach and the Huntington Beach 4th of July Celebration.

She has traveled extensively in Europe, Australia, New Zealand and China as well as the US and Canada chronicling her adventures with an eye on each country's rich natural surroundings and cultural diversity.

Now, at a slower pace, Connie concentrates on California's beauty, unique diversity and welcoming myriad of landscapes and activities that everyone can find worthwhile and enjoyable. Come along on Connie's adventures and get inspired.

SEECALIFORNIA CONTRIBUTIONS

Alcatraz, San Francisco

Autry Museum Exhibit, Los Angeles

Balboa Island, Newport Beach

Ballard Red School House

Coloma's Marshall Gold Discovery State Historic Park

Huntington Library Gardens, San Marino

Huntington Desert Garden

Joshua Tree National Park

Lake Arrowhead, Four Seasons Resort

Palm Desert Vacation

San Luis Obispo Elephant Seals  

Sequoia Kings Canyon Vacation

US TRAVEL CONTRIBUTIONS

Guthrie, Oklahoma

St. Augustine, Florida

 MISCELLANEOUS

Misspelled Road Sign

Connie Young will be forever remembered as an adventurer, planner, humanitarian and lover of the wild and untamed landscape. A natural organizer, Young often volunteered with special events and projects like Huntington Beach 4th of July Parade. She worked many years behind the scenes to help make it a great success. Nothing stopped Connie from living life to the fullest. She didn't let health issues or other obstacles get in her way. And when life tried to slow her down, Connie joked that she was going to get in her car "like Thelma & Louise" and step on the gas.

The California native grew up in Southern California and enjoyed summers outdoors with her siblings, spending time on Catalina Island or in the forests of the San Bernardino mountains where her parents owned a cabin. She was proud of her daughter (an M.D. with a sought-after skill for diagnosing brain injuries), and her son, a web developer, who traveled with her. Her husband, a brilliant aerospace scientist and manager, was her rock. She idolized her grandchildren and beamed with pride in sharing news of their lives and amazing accomplishments.

A lover of nature, she introduced SeeCalifornia to some of the state's greatest assets such Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Park and Joshua Tree National Park. Connie Young traveled the globe but her roots were firmly planted in awe-inspiring California.