![]() We’d met up with my grandparents the night before and stayed with them in Orange County. ![]() She had also never been to a desert in her life, something which I felt was surely lacking so we decided to check both boxes off our list and visit Calico Ghost Town in the Mojave Desert. It’s hard to get the scale of the United States across to people who are not familiar with the country. It’s the biggest, but also just one of the state’s nine national parks and we intended to visit Yosemite and Sequoia, which are also the size of prefectures. If we combine the area of Nagasaki prefecture with the neighboring Fukuoka and Saga prefectures, which have a combined population of 7 million, we will still be smaller than California’s Death Valley National Monument, population 0. ![]() It would also help my wife understand my sense of scale a little better. Politics and other disagreeable subjects aside, the state has so much varied natural beauty and manmade attractions that deserves to be seen. She’d traveled outside of Japan before and even had visited Missouri for a wedding, but she’d never been to my home state and it’d been a spell since I’d been acquainted with its sights so we planned to see some of what makes California great. Back in 2017 I brought my wife to California for the first time.
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