Take Your Thousand Oaks Acorn on Vacation

TALL SHIPS- Brothers Gavin and Landon Nealon stand beside a tall ship that is a replica of one of the ships that carried settlers to Jamestown, Va., where the Nealon family vacationed this summer. The Newbury Park residents also visited Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania and Maryland. TAKING A BREAK- Annee Larson of Thousand Oaks takes a break with hehometown newspaper while hiking at Union Valley Reservoir in Pioneer, Calif., neaLake Tahoe. The stacked rocks behind her are trail markers sometimes referred to as an "Indian Post Office." TROPICAL SHORES- Thousand Oaks residents Alik Shulman and Yevgeniya Belenkaya-Shulman honeymoon in Bora Bora, French Polynesia. CHAMPIONS- Kandi Kuder and Nicole Checkie, both Newbury Park residents, relax after their softball team's fifth championship win in 2006. They played in the United States Slo-Pitch Softball Association's Elite Fast Pitch World Series at the Osceola County Softball Complex in Kissimmee, Fla. DOWN BY THE RIVERSIDE- Jef and Kathy Kurfess of Westlake Village enjoy the beautiful scenery and their hometown newspaper as they take a break from rowing down the Platte River in Michigan. A VIEW OF DIAMOND HEAD- Brothers Brian and Adam Ginell of Thousand Oaks visit the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, also known as the Punchbowl, in Honolulu, Hawaii, last July.