Feature Destinations
SAN FRANCISCO
300C FEATURE DESTINATION: San Francisco, California
SAN FRANCISCO proper occupies just 48 hilly square miles at the tip of a slender peninsula, almost perfectly centered along the California coast. Arguably the most beautiful, certainly the most liberal city in the US, it remains true to itself: a funky, individualistic, surprisingly small city whose people pride themselves on being the cultured counterparts to their cousins in LA the last bastion of civilization on the lunatic fringe of America. It’s a compact and approachable place, where downtown streets rise on impossible gradients to reveal stunning views of the city, the bay and beyond, and blanket fogs roll in unexpectedly to envelop the city in mist. This is not the California of mono-tonous blue skies and slothful warmth the temperatures rarely exceed the seventies, and even during summer can drop much lower.
SAN DIEGO
300C FEATURE DESTINATION: San Diego California
With its world-famous zoo and aquarium to its bountiful beaches, San Diego’s vibrant and exciting lifestyle has plenty to offer visitors and their whole families. It is the kind of city where every day is beach day, and where everyone is busy having as much fun as possible. A relaxed atmosphere permeates the city, probably one of the main reasons to draw more than 30 million visitors a year to San Diego. Given the beautiful weather, outdoor activities abound. San Diego is probably one of the most pedestrian friendly cities in America. Families walk, skate and bike their way over 70 miles of beaches or any one of San Diego’s abundant attractions.
PALM SPRINGS
300C FEATURE DESTINATION: Palm Springs, California
Palm Springs is a resort city in the Santa Rosa Mountains, just south of Interstate 10 at the foot of 10,000-foot Mt. San Jacinto on the westernmost edge of the Sonoran Desert. The city is named for the palm trees that line its streets and for its natural hot springs. These features along with a warm climate, fashionable hotels and private homes, golf courses, parks, and swimming pools, make Palm Springs a major, upscale tourist attraction.
ANAHEIM
300C FEATURE DESTINATION: Anaheim California
Anaheim, California is probably most famous as the home of Disneyland, the first Disney theme park, known around the world as “The Happiest Place on Earth”, but there is much more family fun to be found in and around this city in Orange County, California.
LOS ANGELEES
300C FEATURE DESTINATION: Los Angeles California
Los Angeles is located in Southern California on the Pacific Coast. This City of Angels was established by the Spaniards in 1781. Los Angeles was merely a ranch town when the US appropriated it from Mexico in 1846 – But by the 20th century the film industry shone a spotlight on L.A.
LONG BEACH
300C FEATURE DESTINATION: Long Beach California
Long Beach, California’s fifth largest city, is located just 21 miles southwest of Los Angeles County. Long Beach offers all the amenities of a sophisticated, cosmopolitan city, while retaining the charm and tranquility of a seaside community. Visitors seeking the California dream of beach, sun and ocean need not look any further.
DISNEY WORLD & DISNEYLAND
300C FEATURE DESTINATION: Disney Resorts / Disney World, Florida & Disneyland Anaheim, California
DISNEY is all about dreams. Even better, it is about dreams with happy endings! “When you wish upon a star”, as the song goes, there is the hope and expectation that marvelous things will happen.





