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Bicycling Lompoc: SoCal in Bloom
Lompoc, CA
Imagine the sight: waves of blue, purple, and orange; red patches, looking as big as Caribbean islands, dotting the landscape; broad swathes of yellow extending up and over the horizon. You can’t even bring yourself to believe the colors and the quan…
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California Sky Diving: The Pacific, Bird's-eye Style
Lompoc, CA
More than a sport, skydiving is a lifestyle, a communal activity like scuba diving or surfing—one that attracts people of all walks of life with one thing: the kind of freedom you just can’t find in cubicles or workstations. To the skydiver, “flying”…
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Cambria and San Simeon
Cambria, CA
Cambria is on the coast in the pine-forested foothills. San Simeon, also on the coast, is situated on the coastal benchlands that rise into rolling ranch country on the west slope of the Santa Lucia Mountains. Although the two communities evolved in …
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Central Coast: San Luis Obispo County
San Luis Obispo, CA
San Luis Obispo County’s 3,316 square miles contain the Central Coast’s most varied terrain— from windswept beaches to interior lakes, from grass-covered rolling hills to meticulously tended farmlands, plus recurring topographical evidence of seismic…
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Grover Beach and Pismo Beach
Grover Beach, CA
In the vicinity of Grover Beach and Pismo Beach, the foothills push westward and slope quickly to the ocean, forcing the highway seaward, within view of the resorts atop the bluffs overlooking the beach and surf. Miles of wide beach extend southward …