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It didn't take long to figure out how to find the places "everyone knows": I was on the road, there was a tourist trap with bathrooms, and a bunch of postcards for sale. What better place could there be for the attention-deficit-disorder tourist to find out the important sights to see. I grabbed two postcards showing the whole state (50 cents apiece or 3 for a dollar; I grabbed a third card that shows the famous Tehachapi Loop). The cards are published by Scope Enterprises, Inc (no web presence that I could find).
The first card has a lot of information packed in a small space: LA, San Francisco, San Diego, Disneyland, Napa-Sonoma, and much to my surprise, a whole gamut of Central Valley cities: Sacramento, my own Modesto, Stockton, Fresno, Visalia and Bakersfield. The national parks are there: Yosemite, Sequoia/Kings Canyon, Lassen Volcanic, Redwoods, Death Valley, Joshua Tree, and Channel Islands. Mentions of the coast, Hollywood, Salton Sea. All in all a pretty good effort at nailing down the main tourist destinations, pretty much a checklist for the first-time California traveler. It even includes a few of our state symbols, the Golden Poppy, the California Quail, and the state flag.
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So, in future posts about the "other" California, these are generally the places I won't be talking about (I may make an exception over Morro Rock and perhaps the Bristlecone Pines).
The postcards are fun Garry. I look forward to the other CA.
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