When first-time visitors imagine California, one of the first things that comes to mind is likely the beach. One might envision bathing suit-clad beachgoers strolling down sunny California ...

A map of California is both beautiful and confounding — a giant sock-shaped space somehow stuffed with both mountains and beach, palm trees and eucalyptus, snow and sun, avocados and almonds ...

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