Weekend Escape: Ventura
Visitors make their way around Ventura Harbor Village in Ventura, Calif.
(Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)Visitors go for a walk along a pathway at Ventura Harbor in Ventura.
(Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)New England clam chowder is on the menu at Rhumb Line restaurant in Ventura.
(Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)Shoppers check out the rack in front of the entrance to Ventura Swimwear at Ventura Harbor Village.
(Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)Melinda Visciglia cleans the windows at American Flags & Cutlery on Main Street in downtown Ventura.
(Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)A pedestrian walks along Main Street in downtown Ventura.
(Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)Mark Schooling, background, owner/operator of Gondola Paradiso, takes Andres Lopez and his wife Rebecca on a gondola ride during sunset at Channel Islands Harbor in Oxnard.
(Mel Melcon / Los Angeles Times)A gondola ride through Channel Islands Harbor from Gondola Paradiso.
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