Overview
New from the two guys who quit their jobs 13 years ago to gallivant across America in a 26-foot pink motorhome comes a book that will take you on a tour of a California you've never seen before. Candid, down-to-earth, and in your face, the Monks spout their take on where to find, see, and experience everything from sex to spirituality, dive bars to drag queens, Tijuana to "The O.J. Trail." Full of pithy commentaries and detailed maps, The Mad Monks' Guide to California offers an entertaining, offbeat, one-of-a-kind tour of the Golden State of dreamers.
The Monks traveled California with some simple goals--to listen to the locals, visit their favorite spots, discover other spots on their own, and select the people, places, and things they deemed "Monk-worthy," eschewing both the predictably mainstream and the predictably "alternative" to uncover the really extraordinary travel experiences the Golden State has to offer. What other guidebook will direct you to all the great donut structures in a city? Or give you down-and-dirty glossaries to the local lingo? Not to mention intimate interviews with colorful characters, from Ken Bananaster, owner of the world's only known Banana Museum; to Larry Harvey, founder of Burning Man; to San Diego border agent K.W. Thomas; to the inimitable Jerry Brown, Mayor of Oakland, and the debonair Willie Brown, Mayor of San Francisco. Whether you're a jaded SoCal native, an adventurer from "the other coast," or someone from the great in between, the Mad Monks' Guide to California is a treasure map to the nooks, crannies, quirks, and wackos of the Bear Republic.