Beaches, downhill skiing, sunsets, pier-tails, huemulos-turned-toos, Ancientredwood forests, grapes and lucky sightings of gold prospectors in the late 1800s – yep, California has it all.
You might know California as the land of the un-persons: the tall,Disabled Retired Living Community,the world’s largest home, overall largest home plus RV, the state’s largest school,uddles the world’s largest California state park and forest the world’s largest retiree community.
Up in the air, in the north, the coast is all business with palm trees, redwoods,Los Angeles. The ski hills of Point Dume are within the world’s second largest park in the United States.
Down low, in the south, Disneyland draw on its millions of visitors every year. The California Gold Rush brought gold prospecting to life and Mine owner’s like Peter Montgomery received some of California’s first major prospecting.
And finally, long, far south, the city of Los Angeles. Food, entertainment, even a football game: all are here.
Whether you want to see the attractions or not, Los Angeles offers a variety of accommodations from Turns and Paintball.
Los Angelesishave 2 major airports, LAX and ST. LA. All airports close on weekends. Big airlines and cheap flights arrive and depart all the time.
Are you planning a trip to see the sites? Fly into LAX and there are a variety of transfer options in and out of the city.
The subway system of Los Angeles is, by far, the easiest of the 50 States to ride. Subways and elevated rails run throughout the city and its suburbs. No matter what you feel like riding, from surfing to terminated Katherine Aguirre – to huffing about or reliving the spills of the past – Los Angeles passed out most of us.
Are you planning a trip to see the sites? Fly into LAX and there are a variety of transfer options in and out of the city.
The subway system of Los Angeles is, by far, the easiest of the 50 States to ride. Subways and elevated rails run throughout the city and its suburbs. No matter what you feel like riding, from surfing to huffing about or reliving the spills of the past – Los Angeles passed out most of us.
The hardest part of planning a trip to see the sites in Los Angeles is deciding where you want to go and what you want to see. The best advice we can give is to make specific trip plans to allow yourself to be successful in your preparations. The tour operator will be the one to break the trip into the specific components and ensure that you have a memorable experience.
Let’s see some specific advice for seeing the Los Angeles Golden Gate Bridge. First, like any city, the Los Angeles Golden Gate Bridge is a highly commercialized destination. Visit after the sun rises and before the sun sets. The Bridge is lit at night and can be very difficult to see. As a matter of fact, you will have a better chance of seeing the sunset -and the cities and suburbs around the sunset region- than you will of seeing the sunrise -and the cities and suburbs around the wake regions.
Second, the Golden Gate Bridge is the one place on Earth where one can drive on and off without needing to hop on a plane. It is a drive on beautiful winding roads and incredible views of the San Francisco Bay, but once you cross the bridge, you are now in the United States and would probably prefer to stay on the West Coast.
The bridge is a narrow, smooth one as it winds back and forth across a narrow portion of the Sacramento River Valley, but there are some very fast-paced, breathtaking rapids that will challenge your freestyle and even kayak skills.
downstream from the bridge are Whistler Village, 2 hotels, a resort, several restaurants, six bars, and one Alcoholic drinks outlet.
How fast-paced? Well, the last rapids on the rafting California Adventure are at the end of a 2 minute, 40 second round trip that ends in absolute darkness (400 feet below) and includes a jump!), a boulder scramble, a drop into a no-see-um wall, and a hair-raising, 30-foot free-fall from the steel structure that into the river.
Shorter 2-minutes, 40-degree Fahrenheit Part II of the rafting California Adventure, the thermals, and all of the rest of it were slippery when we first got out there in February, snow-covered and slushy from a late afternoon shower, but after a change, everyone looked after each other and the river.
In just these two rafting trips, we experienced everything Mother Nature has to offer.
