Gosh - why SoCal? Most my trips there have featured smog so thick that
it wasn't VFR legal (yet a bright sunny day). Northern California seems
much better to me (and places like San Fransico have a moderate climate
too).

Think "California Dreamin", and almost any song by the Beach Boys.
THAT was the California most of us dreamed about in the 60s and 70s.

I've been to SoCal in '61, '63, '77, '78, '88, and '94. It looked like
paradise when I first visited...and it was still quite nice in '88, if
you stayed out of the crappy areas.

By '94 it was a mess, and it sounds like hell, now.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"