Eccentric California (Bradt Travel Guides) - Softcover

Friedman, Jan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1841621269 ISBN 13: 9781841621265

Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides, 2005

Synopsis

Jan Friedman's Eccentric America proved that the most unlikely events and landmarks could become tourist attractions. This award-winning title is dedicated to the sheer lunacy of California and her citizens, covering the biggest, the best, the wackiest and weirdest of the state's people and places. From art-car and golf-cart parades to the Valentine's Day Sex Tour at the San Francisco Zoo; from a festival that moons Amtrak to a town with its own language; from obsessed collectors of Pez, yo-yos, and bananas to kitschy theme motels and a man who built a three-storey mountain out of hay, adobe, and old paint. Eccentric California takes an in-depth look at one very peculiar place.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Bradt Travel Guides
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1841621269
• ISBN 13: 9781841621265
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 192