California

Gumbo’s mystery destination for the week is the historic Marshall Gold Discovery site where it all began, on the American River in Northern California’s Gold Country.

Travel Rob takes a short walk to the spectacular McWay Falls on the Big Sur Coast

Travel Rob takes another look at one of the great auto museums of the world, the Petersen in Los Angeles.

Travel Rob sees a Condor perched in Downtown Los Angeles

Nearly half a century after his blockbuster debut, the shark from Jaws is expected to draw crowds to the movie industry's new museum.

Five years after United Airlines ditched flights to New York's JFK in favor of consolidating at Newark Liberty, and three years after a new airline president called the move a mistake, United will start flying from JFK again in February. The return, made possible in part by slots freed up by other airlines in the wake of the pandemic, will not be a big shift, at least at first. The first flights will be transcontinental hops to Los Angeles and San Francisco, using planes that are...

Is it just California, or is this the wave of the future?

DrFumblefinger visits the small town of Solvang, in California's Santa Ynez valley.

DrFumblefinger visits the popular colony of Sea Lions that moved in beside Pier 39 just over 30 years ago.

Stanford University may be known for its famous graduates and Nobel laureates, but PHeymont was more impressed with its beautiful campus.

DrFumblefinger visits La Purisma Mission in central California. It is one of many old Spanish missions in the state, but best represents an intact mission complex, including residences, animal enclosures and so on.

Travel Rob visits a California institution, Hadley Fruit Farms that's been serving Californians far more than fruit since 1931.