What do Visitors to California Want?
Travel Blog • Jim Benning • 12.01.03 | 9:41 PM ET
“Celebrities. Big houses. Conspicuous consumption. A sense of dipping their toes into a hedonistic way of life they’d seen fetishized on T.V.,” writes Rick Lyman in a travel essay in Sunday’s New York Times. Lyman lived in California for four years and tried hard to deliver on that when guests were in town. It wasn’t easy.