California Travel Guides

Guides & Top Activities

My very first taste of the western United States came when I landed at LAX airport, ready to take on an eight-day adventure around California, Arizona and Nevada.

Since then, I’ve had multiple return visits to California’s cities, highways and parks. Yosemite National Park still remains one of my favourite natural spaces on earth!

Los Angeles

  • Los Angeles Westlake Theatre Sign
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  • Hollywood El Capitan Theatre
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  • Entrance to Santa Monica Pier
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Top Los Angeles Activities

hollywood hills horseback riding
  • Hollywood Pantages Theatre
hollywood & celeb homes tour
  • Griffith Observatory
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  • Venice Beach
venice beach surfing lesson
  • Exterior wall of Museum of Death, Los Angeles
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San Francisco

  • San Francisco's Castro District
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  • Alcatraz Island, San Francisco
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  • Interior lobby of Galleria Park Hotel
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  • Pizza and calzone in box
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Top San Francisco Activities

  • San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge
golden gate bay boat cruise
yosemite national park day tour
  • Holding a large slice of thin Italian Pizza
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  • Napa Valley vineyard
venice beach surfing lesson
  • San Francisco giants baseball game
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  • Girl standing in front of trees and rock in Yosemite National Park
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