California Destinations

BERKELEY TRAVEL GUIDE BERKELEY (pronounced as for Busby, though named after the English philosopher-theologian George Berkeley) is dominated by the University of California , one of America's most famous - and infamous - universities... GO! Berkeley

LONG BEACH TRAVEL GUIDE Thanks to a billion-dollar clean-up, downtown Long Beach is not the seedy stomping grounds of off-duty sailors that it was twenty-odd years ago... GO! Long Beach

LOS ANGELES TRAVEL GUIDE The rambling metropolis of LOS ANGELES sprawls across the thousand square miles of a great desert basin, knitted together by an intricate network of congested freeways between the ocean and the snowcapped mountains... GO! Los Angeles

MALIBU TRAVEL GUIDE Malibu , at the top of the bay twenty miles north of Santa Monica, is a whole other world, its beach-colony houses owned by those famous enough to need privacy and rich enough to afford it... GO! Malibu

OAKLAND TRAVEL GUIDE OAKLAND , the workhorse of the Bay Area, is one of the largest ports on the west coast. It has also been the breeding ground of political movements... GO! OAKLAND

PALM SPRINGS TRAVEL GUIDE Orlando may be called the super tourism capital of the world: A great climate, more attractions than any other place... GO! Palm Springs

SACRAMENTO TRAVEL GUIDE A small island town of palatial homes and gardens, and streets so clean you could eat your dinner off them, PALM BEACH has been synonymous for nearly a century with the kind of lifestyle only limitless loot can buy... GO! Sacramento

SAN DIEGO TRAVEL GUIDE San Diego is a city located in the southwestern corner of the state of California (and thus in the southwestern corner of the continental United States). The city is noted for its temperate climate and excellent beaches... GO! San Diego

SAN FRANCISCO TRAVEL GUIDE Rising on a gentle hillside beside the blue waters of Sarasota Bay, SARASOTA is one of California's better-off and better-looking towns... GO! San Francisco

SAN JOSE TRAVEL GUIDE Burt Bacharach could easily find SAN JOSE today simply by heading south from San Francisco and following the heat and smog. Although one of the fastest-growing cities in California... GO! San Jose

SANTA BARBARA TRAVEL GUIDE The six-lane coastal freeway that races past oil wells and offshore drilling platforms slows to a leisurely pace a hundred miles north of Los Angeles at SANTA BARBARA . Beautifully sited on gently sloping hills above the Pacific... GO! Santa Barbara

SANTA CRUZ TRAVEL GUIDE After the overcharged tourism of Monterey, the unassuming community of SANTA CRUZ , 75 miles south of San Francisco, comes as a surprise. Although in many ways the quintessential Californian coastal town... GO! Santa Cruz