Along with updating the travel tales here that appear in the revised edition of my first book, Can’t Get Here from There, I’m also adding many new ones. This one is about Queen Califia’s Magical Circle, one of Southern California’s most extraordinary public art installations. Located within Kit Carson Park in Escondido, the sculpture garden is the final major work of the celebrated Franco-American artist Niki de Saint Phalle. Completed after her death and opened to the public in 2003, it is the only sculpture garden she created in the United States.

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