Kaliforniya deyince aklınıza ilk ne geliyor? Güneş, palmiye ağaçları, ünlülerin yaşadığı havalı evler, sörfçüler, çocukken seyrettiğimiz dizilerden aklımızda kalan eğlenceli hayatlar, geniş caddelerde hızla giden büyük arabalar, sarışın insanlar, mavi gözler…San Francisco’ya uzun bir uçuş sonrası bir akşam vardığımızda yemek yemeye dışarı çıkıp bir büfede kendimizi onlarca Asyalı insanın ortasında bulduğumuza şaşırmıştık, yanlışlıkla Çin’e mi varmıştık yoksa… Kaliforniya bugün Asya...

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What comes to your mind when they say California? Sunny days, surfers, celebrity houses, people driving fast their big cars with looking attractive with blond hair and blue eyes, shortlyan imaginary place in our heads created by Hollywood movies.So when we were in a fast food restaurant in San Francisco on our first night after a 15 hour flight, surrounded by Asians, we were quite surprised; in fact California is one of the places in the world with the highest number of Asian immigrants...

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If time is not an issue for you you can choose the slower option and explore California by train; there are two wonderful train routes; the Amtrak Starlight Train and the Amtrak Pacific Surfliner Train. We took the first one to travel from San Francisco to Santa Barbara and the secon one to go down to San Diego.We had no intention to travel by train in America. Given the distance between the cities, the rule of cars over the whole country and cheap and frequent flights, we were so prejudiced...

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