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DanaMite

DanaMite founder of Total Escape

Internet Pioneer

totalescape.com  – online since 1996

(before the dot com crash, before digital cameras, before GPS, before social media & way ahead of smartphones)

Sole creative force of Total Escape, Dana Williams left her 3D animation career to start living and working her dream job, online and off. Utilizing artistic talents, computer skills, a vast knowledge of the California landscape and a simple love of nature, to make it all come together for a killer web site called Total Escape.

27 years online means fresh content & updates every month; reworking web code every few years to keep up with various browsers, apps, maps, and wildfires.

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“travel agent to the back woods”

greenhouseLiving close to the earth with organic gardening and rural living, DanaMite strives to offer California residents, new-comers and visitors unique, local destinations, concentrating on the outdoors – well away from overcrowded, busy, urban cities and tourist traps. Total Escape can show you how to discover the secret, hidden spots on your public lands that the gov web sites will not even dare to mention.

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Decades without a television set lends plenty of time for studying terrain, topographic maps, GPS coordinates and thousands of photographs to compile more than 8000 pages on just California travel. Far from the daily grind of everyday life, DanaMite continues in educating the public about local travel, camping, family farms, organic cafes, outdoor recreation, respecting the land, responsible use of our resources & how to get more enjoyment out of weekend travels.

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40+ years of documenting back roads of California, plus some Baja & Utah too!
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DanaMite loves Utah, almost as much as she loves California.
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Tejon Pass “Cristo’s Umbrellas” art installation 1991. Photo copyright – Kevin Robinson

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Southern California Photos

Thousands of places – all local, in California; Millions of possibilities for your road trips.

25 years worth of photographs:
the ever-growing Total Escape image bank is on flickr

Recent feeble attempts at trying to manage over 50,000 photos from 2+ decades worth of California travels has lead me to flickr.com.

Residing in several locations – first, Southern California, then the Kern County mountains, then over to the Central Coast, San Luis Obispo county and now living in Northern California – traveling all over California to explore. Utah, Baja, Sierra Nevada, Shasta, the Lost Coast, Lakes, Deserts, mountains – all of it. All California back roads & small towns.

Why should a small biz like me need to pay for monthly bandwidth hosting photos, when most of you just wanna look at beautiful vacation photos? (bored at work presumably).

Way back sometime, I decided flickr was an easy enough venue for me to host my best work for you to see, plus tell stories, rave reviews, add recommendations. From mud-whomping to hot springing, petroglyphs, fishing creeks, hiking, camping – DanaMite has a lot of adventures, ready to share & inspire you to get outside this weekend.

While the majority of this image library is not focused on Southern California, it can lead SoCal residents to where they really wanna go – REAL WILDERNESS. California is a big, tall state with forests, mountains and lakes.

CALIF OUTDOOR PHOTOS

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Lake Genevieve

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CA Wildflowers 2010

Figueroa Mountain

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