CALIFORNIA The Young Traveller’s Ultimate Guide

CALIFORNIA

The Young Traveller’s Ultimate Guide

Road Trips • Beaches • National Parks • Cities • Food • Nightlife • Money Tips

“California is a place in which a boom mentality and a sense of Chekhovian loss meet in uneasy suspension; in which the mind is troubled by some buried but ineradicable suspicion that things had better work here, because here, beneath that immense bleached sky, is where we run out of continent.”

— Joan Didion, Slouching Towards Bethlehem

California is not just a state — it is a state of mind. Stretching nearly 1,300 kilometres along the Pacific coast from the redwood forests of the north to the sun-scorched deserts of the south, California contains more geographical, cultural, and culinary variety than most countries. For young travellers it is the ultimate playground: world-famous cities, legendary surf beaches, jaw-dropping national parks, frontier food scenes, and a spirit of possibility that has drawn dreamers and adventurers for generations. This guide will help you make the most of every mile.