requesting things to do in california & around

[Boopie]

There is a lot to do in California...what are you interested in? Mountains, hiking? Beaches? Desert (e.g. Palm Springs)? Restaurants? Architecture? Hollywood and other world-famous "touristy" things? San Francisco? Los Angeles? Monterey/Carmel? San Diego? Palm Springs? Universities...Cal Tech, UCLA, USC, UC Berkeley, Stanford, UCSD?

Last summer my cousins came out from Hungary. My mother's cousin (almost 70) is an architect, and I know buildings in Europe are far older than what is in LA (as much as I love the Spanish Missions, etc.), so he might not be impressed with LA's old buildings. I brought him to the Huntington Library in San Marino...he thoroughly enjoyed the Cactus Garden there (about 100 years old) and he said there was nothing like it back home. He also enjoyed drinking his first Margarita.