I still go over there a couple of times a year. The countryside is still breathtaking, but you are right, the cities have that worn dirty look to them, and the once beautiful, perfectly maintained highways look shabby and run down. Ah for the days of Reagan and The Duke.
Another California FReeper posted.../
“Remember California in the 80’s when Regan was President, and Bob Hope, and Johnny Cash?
Now Reagan is dead, we have a communist in the White House, and we have no hope and no cash”