California Official Visitor's Guide 2009 - (Page 43) Flipping out in Lake Berryessa. your family witnessed only by the setting sun: Play is an essential part of California’s fabric. Certainly Californians have accomplished many gravely purposeful adult things, but they have never lost their sense of perspective. CEOs sneak off to pedal mountain bikes up perfect trails in the mountains around Lake Tahoe. Surgeons trade glove and scalpel for rope and chalk and a go at Joshua Tree National Park’s sandpaper walls [ rock climb]. Families eschew laundry and yardwork for soaring orcas and splashing rides at SeaWorld. Why, even the governor slips out for a ski. A people of action, we’ve also built our own fun: Disneyland®, Six Flags, Indian casinos, roller coasters that go from zero to 82 miles an hour in 2.3 seconds, towering waterslides that will set the weak of heart to weeping, artificial wave machines that will rip your board shorts off. Frivolous and immature? Perhaps those haughty, dour sorts have lost sight of the more pertinent question: What good is a playground without freewheeling frolickers? KEN McALPINE Enter keyword in Search box at visitcalifornia.com 43 http://www.visitcalifornia.com
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