Lee Foster invites you to explore the history of the San Francisco Bay Area and then roam all of Northern California. He has wandered the territory, from the Oregon border south through Sequoia National Park and the Big Sur Coast. California history, both human culture and man’s interaction with nature, is his favorite subject. He delights in the concept of man saving and preserving nature, a notion to which California made major contributions, starting with John Muir. In 35 suggested trips, Lee guides you to explore for yourself. What might you ask and discover as the answers in your trips?What will you discover?The Table of Contents, with its 35 alluring options, is your best enticement to consider the book.San Francisco Bay Area1. San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge: Spanning the Gap2. San Francisco's Cable Cars: Ride the Cars, Visit the Museum3. Historic Chinatown San Francisco: The Cantonese Enclave4. San Francisco’s Victorian Architecture: The Legacy that Survived the 1906 Quake and Fire5. Alcatraz and Angel Islands in San Francisco Bay: The Secure Prison and the Island of Immigrant Hope6. Berkeley: Free Spirits and Free Speech at the University of California7. Silicon Valley’s High-Tech Heritage: Three Great Museums Tell the Computer/Technology Story of Modern California8. Visiting Leland Stanford’s “Farm”: Now Stanford University in California9. San Mateo’s California Coast-side: Shipwrecks and the Portuguese Coast North of San Francisco10. Sir Francis Drake’s California Landing: Where in Point Reyes?11. The Russian Outpost in California: Fort Ross on the Mendocino Coast 12. Art and the Gray Whale: The Town of Mendocino, CaliforniaNapa and Sonoma13. The Visionary of California’s Calistoga: Sam Brannan’s Hot Springs 14. “The Wine Is Bottled Poetry”: Writer Robert Louis Stevenson in California’s Napa Valley 15. Mariano Vallejo’s California Hospitality: The Sonoma Town Square16. The California Socialist as Literary Entrepreneur: Jack London’s Valley of the Moon17. The Father of California Agriculture: Luther Burbank’s Legacy in Santa Rosa, Sonoma CountyRedwood Country18. Redwood Grandeur Along California’s Highway 101: Avenue of the Giants and the Company Town of Scotia19. Eureka: California’s Redwood Lumber Baron Town20. Redwood National and State Parks: Saving the Tallest Trees in Far Northern CaliforniaShasta-Cascade Region 21. Apocalypse in California: When Lassen Peak Erupted in 191422. Shasta City and Shasta Dam in California: The Northern Gold Rush and the Enduring Wealth of WaterSacramento and the Gold Country23. Dreams of an Agricultural Empire in California: John Sutter’s Vision in Sacramento24. The Iron Road Across the California Sierra: Old Sacramento and the Railroad Museum25. One Lucky Day at the Sawmill: How James Marshall Discovered Gold in California Along the American River at Coloma26. Rambling California’s Historic Gold Country Highway 49: Starting with Columbia, the Preserved Gold Rush Town27. Meandering the California Delta: The Chinese Town of LockeThe Sierra28. The Discovery and Saving of California’s Yosemite: A Militiaman’s Emotions29. Yosemite’s Wawona: A Historic Hotel and the Big Trees of California30. East Side of the California Sierra: Natural Beauty and the Struggle for Water31. The California Bristlecone Pines: Oldest Living Things on Earth32. A Tale of California’s Mammoth Trees: The Giant Inland Sequoias of Sequoia & Kings Canyon National ParksMonterey and Santa Cruz33. Father Junipero Serra’s California Missions: His Headquarters in Carmel34. Monterey: California’s First Capital35. California’s Santa Cruz: The Beach Boardwalk and The Progressive UniversityThe Author:Lee Foster is an award-winning travel writer/photographer living in Berkeley, CA. His work has won numerous awards. Much of his travel journalism can be seen on his website at www.fostertravel.com.