California Travel Dreaming (Curious Travel Guides) An Insider's Guide to the Best Places to Eat, Drink and Explore

An insider's guide to the best places to eat, drink and explore.

California's vast coastline covers nearly 900 miles of scenic drives between the Mexican border to the south and Oregon to the north. California Travel Dreaming dives into California's beauty, exploring everything from sunny beaches and rocky outposts, to redwood forests and arid deserts. Find the very best places to visit in famed regions such as Silicon Valley, birthplace of the internet, and San Francisco, where you can leave your heart and view the iconic Golden Gate Bridge. There's also Hollywood's glamour mecca to the south, the Sierra Nevada Mountains and beautiful Yosemite National Park in the east, the vast Mojave Desert, the rich and charming small towns of Central Valley, and acclaimed wine regions, and it's all within one US state.

A fifth-generation California native, Liza Gershman is a travel writer, photographer and book author. Liza writes for many media outlets including Travel + Leisure, National Geographic, Huffington Post and San Francisco Chronicle, for which she wrote a monthly column called '5 Places' in their travel section. She is the author of 12 books.