Category: California...

Highway 1
riding a horse on the beach in Baja
touring wine country and ghost towns
only Alaska and Texas having more square miles than California
the name of the state probably coming from a Spanish novel that described a paradise island called California
the stunning physical contrast, from the rainy northern coast to the parched Colorado Desert of the south, and the Sierra Nevada - taller than the Rocky Mountains
Mount Whitney and Death Valley, within 85 miles of each other, the highest and lowest points of the 48 states
almost half the land being federally owned, but being the most populous state - 3/4 in Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego
California's aura of being a laboratory for testing new modes of living
California is a fine place to live - if you happen to be an orange. (F. Allen)
California is where you can't run any farther without getting wet. (N. Morgan)