1. How many of the places in the images on the following slides can you name? How many of the places have you visited? Each place has value from a scenic, interesting and/or educational perspective! Please do considering checking them out as all are worth the time. Wonders of California (North of Grapevine) Uncalifornia – no fresh water down here – no persons land!

2. Golden Gate Bridge

3. Cable cars in S.F.

4. Golden Gate ParkJapanese Tea Garden De Young MuseumCalif. Acad. of Sciences

5. Pier 39 near Fishermans Wharf, S.F.

6. Opening in new home on Pier 15 in San Francisco, on April 17, 2013.

7. Yosemite Valley and Falls

8. Tioga Pass, Yosemite

9. Dam Hetch-Hetchy! As well dam for water-tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man. John Muir Should the dam be removed? If it were drained!

10. Lake Tahoe

11. Mt. Shasta

12. Lassen National Park

13. McArthur Burney Falls (Northwest of Lassen)

14. Calaveras State Park (near Arnold, CA)

15. Sequoia National Park

16. Kings Canyon National Park

17. Mono Lake

18. Devils Postpile, Mammoth, CA

19. Death Valley

20. The newest National Park, Pinnacles, 01/13/13

21. California State Capitol, Sacramento

22. California State Fair, Sacramento

23. Great America, Santa Clara, CA

24. Marine World, Vallejo, CA

25. Santa Cruz Boardwalk and coast with lighthouse

26. Año Nuevo State Park, North of Santa Cruz

27. Hearst Castle, Near Cambria

28. Monterey, Carmel area

29. Big Sur coast and redwoods

30. Knights Ferry covered bridge and float trip

31. McHenry Mansion McHenry Museum Free admission

32. Stanislaus County Fair, Turlock

33. San Luis Wildlife Refuge, Beckwith Rd., Modesto

34. Napa Valley winery and train. Other great wineries with tasting rooms are all over Northern California (e.g., Sonoma, Paso Robles, Livermore, Lodi, Murphys, etc.)

35. The MJC Science Center is on the West Campus and will house not only an exciting new Great Valley Museum but many interactive features including a first class planetarium, observatory, science sphere, Foucault pendulum, an outoor education facility and an interactive periodic table.

36. University of California, Merced

37. Stanford University

38. University of Pacific

39. University of California, Berkeley

40. California State Univ., Stanislaus

41. University of California, Davis

42. A hidden gem in Point Arena, CA. Take a tour and/or stay in one of the two fully equipped cabins. Bbryan Preserve.

43. Take advantage of the proximity of all the places you have seen in the preceding slides. Visit, experience, learn, grow and enjoy. Don't cry because it's over, smile because it happened. Dr. Seuss The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience. Eleanor Roosevelt People never learn anything by being told, they have to find out for themselves. Paulo Coelho, Veronika Decides to Die Nothing ever becomes real 'til it is experienced. John Keats Thank you for participating!