The official name of this annual holiday event is Tournament of Roses Parade. The floats are not just ordinary constructions, rather they are covered in flowers.

California topography varies greatly. Many towns are built across rolling foothills, so steep slopes need creative solutions to keep erosion at bay.

In past years Morro Rock was a surrounded by ocean, but since then a breakwater has been built connecting it to land.

A Gift of Hope - Helping the Homeless by Danielle Steel is a recount of her experiences during an eleven year period in San Francisco. This book is non-fiction, whereas she is mostly known to readers for her many fiction books.

Traveling east across the Mojave Desert it is refreshing to reach the Colorado River. It forms the eastern boundary of California from just north of Needles south to Yuma, which is just north of the Mexican border.

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One of my first taste treats in California was sitting down at a restaurant and having a meal including tomato salsa and cheese quesadillas.