California Mishegoss - A Yard for Incarcerated Veterans, When Fries Were Fries

For many road trip enthusiasts, motels are the destination points you look forward to after a long day behind the wheel, the place where you rest your head and don’t worry about making the bed the next morning. Julie Tremaine reveals that the very first motel is actually located in California.

The storm pounded the roof of his Sacramento mansion as the soon-to-be California governor dressed in a neat black suit and ate a leisurely breakfast. A scan of the morning’s newspaper brought only troubles: Californians bitterly split between Union and Confederacy, and reports of floods in every corner of the state. 

The first phase will open next year. but wil grow over the next seven years to connect 15 towns in Northern California and a slice of Nevada with 600 miles of multi-use trails.

It’s hard to think of a highway in Southern California as legendary as the Pacific Coast Highway (PCH). Considered one of the most scenic highways in the world, it stretches for 600 beautiful miles between Orange County and San Francisco.

California has opened what state leaders said will be the nation’s largest prison yard just for incarcerated veterans.

The designated yard, which staff and veterans are calling the “hub,” is at the Correctional Training Facility, a prison snuggled in the foothills town of Soledad on California’s central coast.