Weekend Adventures in San Francisco and Northern California - Softcover

Meyers, Carole Terwilliger

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9780917120190: Weekend Adventures in San Francisco and Northern California

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0917120191 ISBN 13: 9780917120190

Publisher: Carousel Press, 2005

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Weighing in at over a pound, the thoroughly revised and updated eighth edition of Weekend Adventures in San Francisco and Northern California is packed with interesting places to visit. First published in 1977, it is the longest-running guide to Northern California. It covers in detail San Francisco, the Santa Cruz mountains, the coast south from Half Moon Bay to Morro Bay and north from Muir Beach to Eureka, the Wine Country, the Russian River, Interstate 80 north from Berkeley to Truckee and Plumas County, Highway 101 north and south, the national parks (Yosemite, Sequoia and Kings Canyon, Lassen Volcanic, and Redwood), Gold Rush Country, Lake Tahoe, Mt. Shasta, and the Sacramento Delta. Each destination features information on activities, accommodations, restaurants, shopping, family amenities, and driving directions. The book includes chapters on skiing, family camps, houseboats, river trips, and other adventures, plus maps, a detailed index, and a list of annual events

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I spent over a year thoroughly updating this fact-filled guidebook. Every listing was checked. This means "happy trails" for you, the user.

About the Author:

Award-winning travel writer Carole Terwilliger Meyers, a native San Franciscan, holds a B.A. degree in anthropology from San Francisco State University and an elementary teaching credential from Fresno State College. She is the author of 15 books, including WEEKEND ADVENTURES IN SAN FRANCISCO & NORTHERN CALIFORNIA and MILES OF SMILES: 101 GREAT CAR GAMES & ACTIVITIES. She is also the editor of THE FAMILY TRAVEL GUIDE: AN INSPIRING COLLECTION OF FAMILY-FRIENDLY VACATIONS , DREAM SLEEPS: CASTLE & PALACE HOTELS OF EUROPE, and THE ZOO BOOK: A GUIDE TO AMERICA'S BEST, and is the founding publisher of Carousel Press. She is as well an active freelance writer and has written for FamilyFun, Sunset, and numerous other magazines as well as for the travel sections of many newspapers. Carole has been a featured guest on both CNN News and the Today Show and has been quoted in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal . She is an extra in Mick Jagger's 2002 "Visions of Paradise" video and was a regular guest travel authority on KNBR radio in San Francisco. Ms. Meyers is a member of Society of American Travel Writers and resides in Berkeley, California.

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