Bradt Eccentric California (Bradt Travel Guides) - Softcover

Friedman, Jan

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9781841621265: Bradt Eccentric California (Bradt Travel Guides)

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ISBN 10: 1841621269 ISBN 13: 9781841621265

Publisher: Bradt Pubns, 2005

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This new title is dedicated to the sheer lunacy of California and its citizens, covering the biggest, the best, the wackiest and weirdest of the state's people and places.

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Only in California can you visit an artist in residence at the city dump; buy a ticket to a power-tool drag race; taste wine wearing a Marge Simpson wig; climb a mountain made of hay and old paint; go shopping at the County Coroner's Office; leave your gum in Bubble Gum Alley. Every society needs a fringe and - from San Diego to San Francisco Bay - California's eccentrics answer their country's call.
From rooms with a skew to the quirkiest cuisine, the oddest shops to the wackiest festivals, the strangest tours to the most peculiar pursuits, Jan Friedman ventures right to the edge of mainstream tourism and plunges deep into the heart of America's most wonderfully weird state.

About the Author:

Jan Friedman has spent most of her life in the San Francisco Bay area. A travel writer, photographer, and former tour guide, she explored 56 countries before discovering that her very own could offer as much adventure as the most exotic foreign locale. Her Eccentric America was voted Best Travel Guide by the North American Travel Journalists' Association in 2001 and in 2002 won the Lowell Thomas Travel Journalism Gold Award for Guidebooks.

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