Exploring in Carlsbad, California was excellent. We filmed all day in amazing places. I hope you will enjoy all four of these locations with your friends and family! Tell us what you thought about them in the comments below. Wondering where to eat while you are on your journey, Blue Ocean Robata & Sushi Bar is the best! I loved meeting Chef James Pyo.
Blue Ocean Robata & Sushi Bar
2958 Madison Street
Carlsbad , CA 92008
Video: Blue Ocean Sushi
Plan your day in Carlsbad: Which will you choose?
4215 Harrison Street
Carlsbad, California 92008
(760) 434-3089
Video of Lisa on a water tricycle at Carlsbad Lagoon
5790 Armada Drive
Carlsbad, CA 92008
Phone: (760) 438-5996
Video of Lisa learning to play the Theremin: You do not even have to touch it!
5704 Paseo Del Norte
Carlsbad, California 92008
Phone: 760-431-0352
The colors of the flowers are stunning. I loved walking among the beautiful blooms. This is a great place for Mother’s Day, Easter or a date.
Video: Lisa learns about how to keep the flowers growing.
6115 Paseo del Norte,
Carlsbad, CA 92011
Phone. 760.918.2421
Video of Lisa learning about where the revolution began!
Thank you to all of the locations for inviting me to visit and to my video team for recording it for you!
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Lisa Niver
We Said Go Travel
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Lisa Ellen Niver
Lisa Ellen Niver is an award-winning travel expert who has explored 102 countries and six continents. A graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, she worked on cruise ships for seven years and backpacked for three years in Asia. She is the founder of the website WeSaidGoTravel which is read in 235 countries and was named #3 on Rise Global’s top 1,000 Travel Blogs. Niver is represented by Chip MacGregor of MacGregor Literary, Inc. Look for her memoir in Fall 2023 from Post Hill Press/Simon and Schuster.
With more than 150,000 followers across social media, she has hosted Facebook Live for USA Today 10best, is verified on Twitter and listed on IMDb, and is the Social Media Manager for the Los Angeles Press Club.
You can find Lisa Niver talking travel on broadcast television at KTLA TV Los Angeles, Satellite Media Tours, The Jet Set TV and Orbitz travel webisodes as well as her YouTube channel, where her WeSaidGoTravel videos have over 1.7 million views.
As a journalist, Niver has interviewed Deepak Chopra, Olympic medalists, and numerous bestselling authors and been invited to both the Oscars and the United Nations. She has been a judge for the Gracie Awards for the Alliance of Women in Media, and has run 15 travel competitions on her website, publishing over 2,500 writers and photographers from 75 countries.
For her print and digital stories as well as her television segments, she has been awarded three Southern California Journalism Awards and two National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards and been a finalist twenty times.
Niver has published more than 2000 articles, in more than three dozen magazines and journals
including National Geographic, Wired, Teen Vogue, HuffPost Personal, POPSUGAR, Ms. Magazine, Luxury Magazine, Smithsonian, Sierra Club, Saturday Evening Post, AARP, AAA Explorer Magazine, American Airways, Delta Sky, enRoute (Air Canada), Hemispheres, Jewish Journal, Myanmar Times, BuzzFeed, Robb Report, Scuba Diver Life, Ski Utah, Trivago, Undomesticated, USA Today, TODAY, Wharton Magazine, and Yahoo.
Awards
National Arts and Entertainment Journalism Awards
2021 Winner: Book Critic: Ms. Magazine “Untamed: Brave Means Living From the Inside Out”
2019 Winner: Soft News Feature for Film/TV: KTLA TV “Oscars Countdown to Gold with Lisa Niver”
2019 Finalist for: Soft News, Business/Music/Tech/Art
Southern California Journalism Awards
2022 Finalist: Book Criticism
2021 Winner: Technology Reporting
2021 Finalist: Book Criticism
2020 Winner: Print Magazine Feature: Hemispheres Magazine, “Painter by the Numbers, Rembrandt”
2020 Finalist: Online Journalist of the Year, Activism Journalism, Educational Reporting, Broadcast Lifestyle Feature
2019 Finalist: Broadcast Television Lifestyle Segment for “Ogden Ski Getaway”
2018 Finalist: Science/Technology Reporting, Travel Reporting, Personality Profile
2017 Winner: Print Column “A Journey to Freedom over Three Passovers”
Social Media Presence
YouTube Channel: We Said Go Travel (1.7 million views)
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