How interesting how we often think we have to travel thousands of miles to experience the most beautiful corners of the world. But let me go on record to say that even with the experience of growing up in Utah, and having a pretty good collection of stamps in the passport, I’m not sure if I’ve ever experienced a richer or more delicious landscape then that of Northern California, and I don’t think it could have been better said than this:

 

“There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.”

- EDWARD ABBY, AMERICAN WRITER (1927-89)