I got my bags packed on a roll heading out there and I'm ready to go looking real good

in my passport photo

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Amateur Traveler, episode 669. Today the amateur traveler talks about mountains and

missions and ghost towns, beaches and tall trees and trains as we talk about the state parks of California.

Welcome to the amateur traveler. I'm your host Chris Christensen. Let's Talk California.

I'd like to welcome back to the show Jeff Olphs who is a retired National Park Ranger

he's been on the show before talking about Joshua Tree National Park and has come

back to talk to us about some other parks.

Jeff, welcome to the show.

Hey, thanks, Chris.

I love listening to your programs and it's great to be back.

And we're not talking National Parks this time.

What are we going to talk about?

Well, you know you've had podcasts on Canada's UNESCO World Heritage Sites kind of as a group in some of the U.S. parks

system.

We're going to talk about, of course I'm biased because I'm a third generation Californian, but the probably

the finest state park system in the country, and that's California State Park system, which preserves

the diverse cultural and natural heritage of California.

So basically we're going to take a big tour of California.

Excellent. Well, I'm a first generation resident of California having moved here at a very, very

young age, but I have some bias as well and you mentioned

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