California

I've wanted to go to California so that I can see the Pacific for years, and that traveling bug is coming on awful strong, so I think I'll take a long weekend in either August or September to fly out there and say hello to the West Coast.
It'll be my birthday present to myself.
I'll most likely fly into San Francisco. I don't think I'll want to do too much in the city itself, but it's as good a place as any to start from. I would like to visit some of Jack Keruoac's old haunts and check out Haight-Ashbury so that I can at least say I've been there. Sounds touristy, but hey, I'm a tourist.
From there, I'll head down the coast to Big Sur, stopping off at Salinas so that I can check out the National Steinbeck Center (I don't have an English degree for nothing.)
Those little side treks aside, I just want to stick my feet in the Pacific and watch at least one sunset from the cliffs over the ocean. I imagine the colors are amazing.
Anyway, I've been saying that I'll go to California for years, so I think this year I might actually do it.
Life's too damn short.