A good overnight destination on the West Coast?

[Meliss]

Hi all,

I am currently trying to find a cool place to fly to within 400NM of me (I fly out of KSNA). I've been nearly everywhere in Southern Cali so I am trying to branch out. I am looking to fly somewhere to spend the night - preferably somewhere scenic and reasonably priced. Any suggestions from my fellow POA members? Where have you been that you would recommend my going? Thank you in advance!

 

[Jim Logajan]

No specific suggestions - just some web sites offering tools to make the job even tougher. The first two sites have tools where you enter your airport ID and a radius and you'll get a list of possible destinations:

http://www.funplacestofly.com/fun_places_to_fly_maps.asp

http://www.adventurepilot.com/

This one has a map that shows places that have been reviewed by the magazine:

http://pilotgetaways.com/

 

[Jim Logajan]

It's just that some of us have noticed that we already had three abbreviations for California (Cal., Calif., and CA), and wondered why we need yet another.

The "Cali" abbreviation was allegedly popularized by the hip-hop crowd. It is what it is. I'm not sure why this particular language redundancy is worthy of note or vexation at all, because it pales when compared to a whole host, set, collection, horde, or passel of words that are synonymous with "group":
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_collective_nouns_in_English