Wood's Creek, Jamestown, California.
I just got back from a couple of weeks touring California and want to share one of the highlights of the trip. Of course, it had a York County connection.
Was it visiting Alcatraz? No, the closest tie between York and Alcatraz is some recent suggestions to house the prisoners from Guantanamo at one or the other. Touring Napa Valley vineyards? No, but both California and Pennsylvania are in the top ten lists of wine producing states. Yosemite? We have trees and waterfalls too, but I haven't seen any of either quite as large in Pennsylvania.
San Simeon? Nice house William Randolph Hearst built there, but the closest I can get to his roots is Virginia. Roy Rogers (Leonard Slye) and his footprints in the courtyard at Grauman's Chinese Theater? His ancestry can also be traced to Virginia. Maybe he and Hearst were related? Trigger's hoof prints are there too, and internet sources say Trigger, Jr. was purchased by Rogers from Paul K. Fisher in Souderton, Pa.--at least there is a Pennsylvania connection, however weak. Michael Jackson's nearby star on Hollywood Blvd. was getting a lot of attention last week. I don't know of any local ties there, but who knows?
No, one of my favorite California spots was on Wood's Creek in the small town of Jamestown, in the foothills of the Sierra Nevadas.
