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The Mad Monks' Guide to California (Frommer's Travel Guides)
The Mad Monks' Guide to California - Frommer's Travel Guides Author:Michael Lane, James Crotty Traditional travelers visit a place to fulfill expectations. Others, though, travel in search of the unknown, to experience the shock of the new, to be transformed by the experience. In the deep, dark 1980s, James Crotty and Michael Lane quit their jobs, traded everything they owned for a used 26-foot mobile home, and hit the road. Their mission... more »: to report on the incredible people, places, and parking lots they encountered along the way, first through Monk, the Mobile Magazine, and now in a new guidebook series.Candid, down-to-earth, and in your face, The Mad Monks' Guide to California offers the Monks inimitable take on where to find, see, and experience everything from sex to spirituality, dive bars to drag queens, Tijuana to The O.J. Trail. Full of pithy commentaries and detailed maps, The Mad Monks' Guide offers an entertaining, offbeat, one-of-a-kind tour of the Golden State of dreamers. What other guidebook will direct you to all the great donut structures in LA? Or give you down-and-dirty glossaries to the local lingo? Not to mention intimate interviews with colorful characters, from Ken Bananaster, owner of the world's only known Banana Museum; to Larry Harvey, founder of Burning Man; to San Diego border agent K. W. Thomas; to the inimitable Jerry Brown, Mayor of Oakland, and the debonair Willie Brown, Mayor of San Francisco. Whether you're a jaded SoCal native, an adventurer from the other coast, or someone from the great in between, The Mad Monks' Guide to California is a treasure map to the nooks, crannies, quirks, and wackos of the Bear Republic.« less