California Shopping
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Yahoo Travel - California
The shopping in California is as good as it gets: Visitors can find everything from funky clothes for the MTV crowd to priceless bijouterie for the Rolls Royce set. Look for avant-garde fashions and haute couture, imported products and art, sports gear and entertainment-industry memorabilia. In San Diego, look for Mexican arts and crafts.
There is no place better in North America to shop for wines than in Northern California. The area's hundreds of wineries offer limited runs, vintage reserves and test-production wines that are available only at the winery. In redwood country, you'll find redwood clocks, tables, chairs, chainsaw carvings and boxes, some tasteful, some less so. Prospecting equipment is readily available in Gold Country, including pans, picks, maps and scales.
You'll find plenty of fresh fruits, dried fruits and nuts. The dried fruits and nuts are presented in numerous ways: dipped in chocolates or yogurts, roasted, smoked, etc. It's really quite fun to find one of the factory outlets in the Central Valley and sample all the offerings. (One stop we would highly recommend is Casa de Fruta, south of San Jose in Hollister on Highway 152 -- it has both good produce and lots of kitsch.)
Finally, you can buy excellent original art throughout the state. Especially large groups of artists and artisans work in Arcata, Mendocino, Santa Cruz, Monterey, Napa and San Francisco.
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