Where to go in California

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Greetings:

[Riverboat]

The missus and I had hoped to visit our daughter in LA at the end of February. While there, I want to visit the Reagan library. I wonder if we should bother? She lives just inside Laurel Canyon, if that helps.

[Doom]

Why not? The Nixon Library is not far away either, in Yorba Linda. After I retire (hopefully in 2035) I hope to visit all presidential libraries, monuments, birthplaces, and the like. By then, there will probably be a Trump and Biden presidential library too. I will probably skip the Biden one.

[Riverboat]

I want to take in the Nixon library, too. My wife doesn't. Says it's the other direction. "And?"

I like going to places like this, but I already made it clear I will not go to anything connected with Carter, Obama or BIden. I won't stop her, of course, but I'll sit somewhere else that serves coffee and pie. I've always got a book with me.

[Highlander]

Driven thru "Nothing" several times.

Visited the Eisenhower library in Abilene . Which has a very spread out campus. Of course, during record heat. And the LBJ library in Austin, which has a whole different vibe. California was my wife's home state and a son was stationed there with the military. I had many very good experiences in California -- but it isn't California anymore. So we don't go there. Good luck. I hear the Nixon and Reagan libraries are worth it.

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Greetings:

Driving through nothing,

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bye

[Irenaeus]

I'm a Bronx native but was raised in the NYC suburbs. I lived in California for just over eight years. Somehow I never made it north of Sacramento, but I did visit plenty of the state south of Sacramento. Let's see, visited SF for a weekend with my parents, visited Yosemite, Kings Canyon, and Death Valley National Parks, drove several times for great lengths along the stunningly scenic Hwy 1 - even drove high over the Coast Ranges from near San Ardo to descend on Hwy 1, drove through Gilroy on Hwy 101 and could smell the garlic-scented air (the Gilroy Garlic Festival has been (permanently?) cancelled after the mass shooting in 2019 and the Covid outbreak), spent most of my time in or around San Diego, did some work in the Imperial Valley including Calipatria which is one of the lowest points in the US. My very first day in California I drove in on US 10 from Arizona and for the first time spotted In-N-Out Burger bumper stickers (modified to, ahem, "[something that shall not be mentioned here]") yet somehow never ate at one. They were mostly in LA then and I had friends who would make a two-hour each-way road trip get In-N-Out burgers. I did enjoy the inexpensive, fast, tasty, combination platters at several of the Roberto's Taco Shops all over Los Angeles and San Diego. Del Taco wasn't bad either though those were mostly up on the Grapevine separating the LA area from the Central Valley (the ginormous expanse, mostly of farmlands, orchards, and vineyards, stretching about 450 miles from south of Bakersfield to just north of Redding). I'm in NYC now and miss the frozen yogurt shops and the great weather, though walking home tonight the light snow was pretty, even if the footing was treacherous.