Eccentric California

From rooms with a skew to the quirkiest cuisine; from the oddest shops to the wackiest festivals, from the strangest tours to the most peculiar pursuits, Jan Friedman, the award- winning author of Eccentric America, takes you deep into the heart of the country's most wonderfully weird state.

This oasis of oddity, home to one in eight Americans, is also home to a multitude of delightfully daft experiences. Where else but California will you find a freeway tunnel built just for toads or an alley whose walls are decorated with fifty years worth of gum? Where else can you celebrate festivals like the Urban Iditarod, the Power Tool Drag Races, Moon Amtrak, or the Banana Slug Derby? Only in California can you visit a town that bans high heels and another that speaks their own language; watch an artist in residence at the city dump; eat an elegant dinner in the fields where your food is grown; and sleep in a Caddy convertible at the drive-in. Only here can you shop at a Coroner's Office gift store, go wine tasting in a Marge Simpson wig, and take part in a pillow fighting competition.

Read more from Eccentric California at www.eccentriccalifornia.net and another of Jan's offerings, Eccentric America at www.eccentricamerica.com.

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