Visiting California as a Family

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...

5 Exciting Things to Visit at Joshua Tree NPS

Joshua Tree National Park is located in California where the Mojave Desert meets the Colorado River. The two different ecosystems make for an interesting and exciting area to explore! This is a...

Classic California: Capitola Beach Vacation

There are many different Californias. There's the glitz of Hollywood, and the gritty cityscape of L.A. There is wine country, mountains, and forests. But, arguably the one iconic landscape of the...