<?xml version="1.0" encoding="iso-8859-1" ?><rss version="2.0"><channel><title>washingtonpost.com - California</title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/travel/archive/unitedstates/ca?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/ca</link><description>California</description><language>en-us</language><ttl>15</ttl><image><title>washingtonpost.com</title><width>140</width><height>20</height><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com</link><url>http://media.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/hp/image/wp_web.gif</url></image><item><title><![CDATA[Disneyland Turns the Big 5-0]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47374-2005Mar18.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/ca</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47374-2005Mar18.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/ca</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:41:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[     WHAT: "The Happiest Homecoming on Earth,"  the 50th  anniversary celebration of the opening of Disneyland in Anaheim, Calif. Anaheim is 27 miles south of Los Angeles and 100 miles north of San Diego.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[In Santa Ynez Valley, A Toast to 'Sideways']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53363-2005Feb25.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/ca</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53363-2005Feb25.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/ca</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:41:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA["Sideways" fans from around the world are rushing to see the wine country of Santa Ynez Valley for themselves.]]></description><author> Kimberly Edds</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Now Showing:  The Real 'OC']]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35265-2005Feb18.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/ca</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35265-2005Feb18.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/ca</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:41:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Here's the latest weather report, courtesy of Fox's "The OC," for Orange County, Calif.: Today, tomorrow and every day after that till the end of time will be warm and sunny, with intermittent spurts of melodrama.]]></description><author> Samantha Sordyl</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[San Francisco Two Ways]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23024-2005Feb14.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/ca</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23024-2005Feb14.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/ca</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:41:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Game, Set...Match?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15232-2005Feb10.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/ca</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A15232-2005Feb10.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/ca</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:41:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Austin <br>866-GO-AUSTIN, www.austin texas.org<br>   MERRYMAKING:  For bars/restaurants swarming with singles, cruise SoCo, along Congress Avenue. Other hot spots: Oslo (301 W. Sixth St.), for metrosexuals and the women who primp like 'em; Iron Cactus (606 Trinity...]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hiking in S. California After the Floods]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44823-2005Jan28.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/ca</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A44823-2005Jan28.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/ca</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:41:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  Washington area travelers heading to Southern California for some mid-winter hiking will find that the heavy rain and mudslides that ravaged the area earlier this month brought good news and bad news.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Santa Monica: We Are Not  L.A. -- Or Are We?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9667-2005Jan14.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/ca</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9667-2005Jan14.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/ca</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:41:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Santa Monica is not Los Angeles.<br> On any map of the sprawling 465-square-mile megalopolis that is L.A., the independent city of Santa Monica (population 87,162) is little more than a smudge surrounded by the City of Angels on three sides and the Pacific on the fourth.]]></description><author> John Rosenthal</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[California's Pier of the Day]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56546-2005Jan7.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/ca</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A56546-2005Jan7.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/ca</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:41:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[    WHAT:  Harford Pier, a classic working pier on California's central coast.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Bodie: Is Anyone Home?]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39982-2004Dec31.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/ca</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A39982-2004Dec31.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/ca</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:41:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[It seems appropriate that a building in a ghost town should be haunted, and Noella Ballenger insists this one is. It's the former home of Lottie Johl, a Bodie, Calif., prostitute who entertained the town's gold miners in the late 1870s.]]></description><author> Gary Anthes</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Sacramento: The Two-Day Tour]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17911-2004Oct8.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/ca</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A17911-2004Oct8.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/ca</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:41:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[If you're looking for hot nightlife and a wild bit of debauchery, Sacramento wouldn't be your kind of town.]]></description><author> Cindy Loose</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[San Francisco's Carnival Atmosphere]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59506-2004Sep3.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/ca</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A59506-2004Sep3.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/ca</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:41:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ San Francisco's Laughing Sal -- the gap-toothed mechanical redhead  whose shrill cackle made Playland at the Beach famous -- has a new haunt on Pier 45. The stroll through Fisherman's Wharf to find her is part of the fun.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Adventure Land]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38853-2004Aug27.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/ca</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38853-2004Aug27.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/ca</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:41:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Northern California is home to huge, awe-inspiring tracts of public land that offer a blur of biking, hiking, fishing and more.]]></description><author> John Briley</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Hearst Ranch May Stay Unspoiled]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22493-2004Aug21.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/ca</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A22493-2004Aug21.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/ca</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:41:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[After decades of debate, California and the Hearst family have reached agreement on preserving nearly all of the Hearst Ranch.]]></description><author> Rene Sanchez</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[California's Timeless Bridge]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9484-2004Jul23.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/ca</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9484-2004Jul23.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/ca</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:41:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[   Zipping along Interstate 5, you once could bypass Redding, Calif., like a barely noticed speed bump between Sacramento and the Oregon border. Now there's a reason to stop.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Don't Fence Them In]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9466-2004Jul23.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/ca</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9466-2004Jul23.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/ca</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:41:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[Awild black stallion with about 20 mares at his side rears his head and stares intently, his body stiff and alert, ears perked.]]></description><author> Cindy Loose</author></item><item><title><![CDATA[An Off-Ramp Eden Near L.A.]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55208-2004Jul16.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/ca</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55208-2004Jul16.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/ca</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:41:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[  I'd spent three days racing, dodging and crawling on a dozen different L.A. highways, traveling from one business meeting to another. Life was mostly off-ramps and on-ramps by the time I reached Seal Beach, a coastal hamlet 25 miles south of Los Angeles, between the Bolsa Chica Ecological Reserve and the U.S. Naval Weapons Station.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[POSTCARD FROM TOM: Los Angeles]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23535-2004Jul2.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/ca</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A23535-2004Jul2.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/ca</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:41:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[A.O.C. <em>(8022 W. Third St., 323-653-6359 )</em><br>Our waitress explains the restaurant's philosophy: "It's not traditional courses, but infinite grazing." Diners are encouraged to order an array of appetizer-size plates, then share the Mediterranean-inspired food as it's ready. There's...]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[Berkeley, With Extra Cheese]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5467-2004Jun25.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/ca</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A5467-2004Jun25.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/ca</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:41:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[    WHAT:  Cheese Board Pizza     WHERE:  Berkeley, Calif.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[San Francisco's Valley of the Designs]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34442-2004Jun11.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/ca</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A34442-2004Jun11.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/ca</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:41:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[ In most cities, when a formerly gritty neighborhood becomes hip, Banana Republic and  the Gap soon invade. Not so in San Francisco's SoHo-ish Hayes Valley, a zone of indie clothing boutiques and mod housewares shops near Davies Symphony Hall. Businesses in the increasingly trendy area southwest of the Civic Center recently banded together, getting City Hall to approve a measure that effectively bans national chain stores and restaurants.]]></description><author></author></item><item><title><![CDATA[POSTCARD FROM TOM: San Francisco]]></title><link>http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54674-2004Apr29.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/ca</link><guid isPermaLink="true">http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A54674-2004Apr29.html?nav=rss_travel/archive/unitedstates/ca</guid><pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:41:40 GMT</pubDate><description><![CDATA[<em>Looking for a souvenir to take home from San Francisco? For inspiration, roam the farmers market in the Ferry Building Marketplace overlooking the bay. And make time for one of these restaurants:</em>]]></description><author></author></item></channel></rss>