This is the area of Southern California where my son and his fam live and where Eileen and I are currently vacationing with them.
Corona is nestled in the mountains. You can see by the green shaded areas that are there several mountain ranges in this area.
A few years ago I was poking around looking for books on southern California online and ran across a book by John Muir.
I must have downloaded it here. It’s also available online to read.
I enjoyed reading a few pages while visiting then. Before coming for this visit I noticed it was still on my Kindle and began reading in it again.
The prose is gentle and talks about the geological history of this area. I found it pretty interesting.
I began wondering about Muir. I found out that he was one of the founders of the Sierra Club.
I like reading local history while visiting a place, so this is very cool. I found another book by him that looks to be a bit more breezy in its prose:
Muir died in 1914 right after WWI had begun. He was born in Scotland and moved to the US in 1849 with his family. He seems like a fascinating character to me and I quite like reading him. Who knew he was so famous?
The mountains even here in Corona are a beautiful back drop wherever one goes. Very cool.
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