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California 2002

In June 2002 I went to California for a week, something I have been dreaming about my entire life. The trip down Highway 1 was an almost religious experience. Turning around in enormous L.A. I went up to Yosemite National Park and ended up in San Francisco, the most beautiful of American cities. The following is a picturesque odyssé around California. Click to enlarge the pictures.

I have reached the Pacific

I slept by this lighthouse

Valley along Highway 1

Picturesque bay

Mystic clouds surrounding mountainside

It's a long way down!

Famous Monterrey - Fishermen's Wharf

Outside Monterrey

Seabirds near Monterrey

Going farther south

Santa Barbara harbour

Santa Monica's pleasant beach

Finally in L.A.

Hollywood sign

Giant sequoias in Yosemite

Sometimes the sequoias must give up!

Lovely Park Rangers

In Yosemite Valley

The classic view

Silicon Valley - The NASA Research Center

Stanford University

San Francisco - fish market

Me at Golden Gate

Golden Gate by night