California

Received from: the USA
Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: November 2016
Distance: 8617 km
Time of travelling: 8 days

California

Received from: the USA
Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: September 2016
Distance: 8391 km
Time of travelling: 16 days

Sequoia National Park

Received from: the USA
Category: from a friend
Date:  July 2016

Sequoia National Park is a national park in the southern Sierra Nevada east of Visalia, California, in the United States. It was established on September 25, 1890. The park spans 404,064 acres. Encompassing a vertical relief of nearly 4,000 m, the park contains among its natural resources the highest point in the contiguous 48 United States, Mount Whitney, at 4,418 m above sea level. The park is south of and contiguous with Kings Canyon National Park; the two are administered by the National Park Service together as the Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. They were designated the UNESCO Sequoia-Kings Canyon Biosphere Reserve in 1976.

California

  

Received from: the USA
Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: December 2012
Distance: 9656 km
Time of travelling: 20 days

California's diverse geography ranges from the Pacific Coast in the west, to the Sierra Nevada mountains in the east – from the Redwood–Douglas-fir forests of the northwest, to the Mojave Desert areas in the southeast. The center of the state is dominated by Central Valley, a major agricultural area. California contains both the highest and lowest points in the contiguous United States (Mount Whitney and Death Valley), and has the 3rd longest coastline of all states (after Alaska and Florida). Earthquakes are a common occurrence due to the state's location along the Pacific Ring of Fire: about 37,000 are recorded annually.

California

Received from: the USA
Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: January 2012
Distance: 9433 km
Time of travelling: 17 days

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third most extensive (after Alaska and Texas). It is home to the nation's second- and sixth-largest census statistical areas (Los Angeles Metropolitan Area and San Francisco Bay Area), and eight of the nation's fifty most populated cities (Los Angeles, San Diego, San Jose, San Francisco, Fresno, Sacramento, Long Beach and Oakland). The capital city is Sacramento.

Sacramento

Received from: USA
Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: September 2011
Distance: 9425 km
Time of travelling: 13 days

Governor's Mansion State Historic Park is the location of Historic Governor's Mansion of California, the former official home of the Governor of California. The mansion is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Located at 1526 H Street in Sacramento, the mansion is now used primarily for public and state ceremonies and events. George Pardee was the first governor to live in the house; Ronald Reagan, who lived in it for only four months, was the last. The thirty-room Second Empire-Italianate Victorian mansion was built in 1877 for local hardware merchant Albert Gallatin. The State of California purchased the house in 1903 to serve as a governor's mansion. Many furnishings remain from former governors, including Pardee's 1902 Steinway piano, velvet chairs and sofas belonging to Governor Hiram Johnson, and Persian rugs bought by Mrs. Earl Warren. The structure has been renovated a number of times.

San Francisco

Received from: the USA
Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: September 2011
Distance: 9605 km
Time of travelling: 6 days

The Palace of Fine Arts in the Marina District of San Francisco, California, is a monumental structure originally constructed for the 1915 Panama-Pacific Exposition in order to exhibit works of art presented there. One of only a few surviving structures from the Exposition, it is the only one still situated on its original site. It was rebuilt in 1965, and renovation of the lagoon, walkways, and a seismic retrofit were completed in early 2009.

Los Angeles

Received from: the USA
Category: Postcrossing - official card
Date: July 2011
Distance: 9809 km
Time of travelling: 10 days