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It’s my first time in Washington DC! “I'm glad we were here together in our nation's capital.”

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Unlike with Jerry Graham and Bay Area Backroads, there is still a lot of live and available archives dedicated to this week’s “OG Travel Guide of California.”

I don’t know if California’s Gold was televised throughout all of California. But, I spent most weekend mornings with an unlikely aspirant disguising himself as a television show host. Tolerable in a way that he towered over most of his constituents standing at 6’4’’ with a wide smile and broad shoulders that made his physique resemble a football player. Intolerable when those he interviewed would answer his questions and he would immediately repeat their answer at verbatim, but in his own lazy southern regional drawl and at peak volume! But, Huell Howser was no football player, instead a United States Marine. What are your memories of Huell Howser?

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