A well-earned day off at Ventura Beach and they left again for Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, Panoche Valley and finally home to Davis. The state of California is diverse in landforms, climate, vegetation, geology and ecological regions. Course attendance allows participants to visit and travel through some majestic settings, often traveling forgotten roads and highways of the past. The class visits and investigates soils and their relationship to parts of California that even many long-time natives have never seen. The Field Studies of Soil Resources course is a unique experience in and of itself.
Many participants also come away with life-long friendships.