The #1 Best Ever Trip to the USA

The American West covers about 1,000,000 square miles (2,600,000 sq km). That's a lot to see, and there is a lot to see there. We started traveling in the American West in 1965. Although we never did...

San Francisco, CA: Favorite Sights

1] The California Line Cable Car ride. 2] The ferry boat ride from the Ferry Terminal at the end of Market St. to Sausalito and back 3] The Victorian houses 4] San Francisco from on high San...

Surprising Los Angeles, CA, USA

First off, Los Angeles is big-- Los Angeles County, USA, covers 4,753 sq miles and has a population of more than 10,000,000 people. 4,000,000 people live in Los Angeles City, the largest city in...

The Trees of California

The CA Coastal Redwood tree is the tallest tree in the world. It is also remarkably straight and very desirable for constructing out door decks because 1] it rarely warps, 2] it is a very pretty wood...

Death Valley National Park, California, USA

Covering 3,400,000 acres (5,312 sq miles) Death Valley is the largest National Park outside Alaska. Death Valley recorded the highest temperature ever seen in the world in 1913: 134 F (56.7 C...

The California Coast

CA's coast runs north – south for 840 miles, with a scenic coastline of 3,427 miles. I'm not going to detail everything to see on the coast road, CA Rt #1, just some of the highlights we...