New York City - a walk across the Brooklyn Bridge, next stop: Manhattan. This world famous steel suspension bridge was designed by architect John Roebling between 1867 and 1883. The Brooklyn Bridge is a monument to man’s ingenuity and creativity. On completion, it was the largest suspension bridge in the world and the first steel-wire suspension bridge. On the Manhattan side, you can get some great views of this majestic bridge from the top of Pier 17 at the South Street Seaport.

The construction of the Brooklyn Bridge is detailed in the 1972 book The Great Bridge by David McCullough and in the first PBS documentary film ever made by Ken Burns, Brooklyn Bridge (1980). Burns drew heavily on McCullough’s book for the film and used him as narrator.

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From the fishing pier you are looking west along the bike path and the beach. Ventura offers the best in family seaside recreation. Ventura, the gateway to the Channel Islands National Park, is a classic Southern California beach town offering the services and amenities that make every visit a memorable experience. Ventura combines Spanish charm, sophisticated cuisine, cosmopolitan appeal and real people.

Rich and famous like to escape and hide out in Ventura because its bistros and clubs offer the finest meals, minus the stuffy atmosphere, traffic and big city trappings. Ventura is vintage not only in its ability to preserve history with places such as lovely Spanish mission San Buenaventura, historic ranchos and the building in which famed writer Earle Stanley Gardner created his Perry Mason crime solving novels.

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Ventura, officially known as San Buenaventura, means “city of good fortune” in Spanish. The name is taken from the Spanish mission built in 1782 by Father Junipero Serra as the ninth and last of the 21 missions the founder of California missions actually oversaw. Destroyed by an earthquake and rebuilt in 1815, a triangle at the entrance symbolizes the holy trinity and the ornamentation on the wall around the side door opposite a fountain is actually a map of the area for wayward travelers.

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This aerial shows Old Sacramento in the foreground with the California State Capitol visible in the center of the photo. Sacramento is the capital of California, it is located along the Sacramento River and just south of the American River’s confluence in California’s expansive Central Valley. The pace of life is somewhat slower than in other large Californian cities, and the people are generally warm and friendly. According to Time magazine Sacramento is the most diverse city in the USA.

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Located in a leafy valley of scenic rivers and canopies of trees, today’s Sacramento is a cosmopolitan convergence of tall, gleaming buildings, hearty Victorians, splendid restaurants and shops, a vibrant arts scene, and a virtual cornucopia of state of the art meeting facilities.

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In 1840 work began to construct this 70 foot lighthouse, with sandstone quarried from East Haven and a solid brick interior. This lighthouse guided many ships into the harbor, until 1877 when a more strategic light was built near the breakwater.

Lighthouse Point Park, an 84-acre park by the sea; is also home to a “Coney Island Style” Carousel, a public beach, bathhouse, picnic areas and shelters - open to the public.

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Connecticut is a gardener’s mecca. Strawberry Hollow Farm located on US Rt. 1 in Guilford, draws visitors from the entire state and beyond, between Labor Day and Christmas.

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