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19 Santa Cruz Farmers Market B2
20 Soif B2
21 Walnut Ave Cafe B1
Drinking & Nightlife
22 Caffe Pergolesi B2
23 Hula's Island Grill B2
24 Surf City Billiards & Café B2
Verve Coffee Roasters B1
25 Vino Prima C5
Entertainment
26 Catalyst B2
27 Kuumbwa Jazz Center B3
Shopping
28 Annieglass B1
Bookshop Santa Cruz B1
Santa Cruz has marched to its own beat since long before the Beat Generation. It's coun-
terculture central, a touchy-feely, new-agey city famous for its leftie-liberal politics and
live-and-let-live ideology - except when it comes to dogs (rarely allowed off-leash), park-
ing (meters run seven days a week) and Republicans (allegedly shot on sight). It's still cool
to be a hippie or a stoner here (or better yet, both), although some far-out-looking freaks
are just slumming Silicon Valley millionaires and trust-fund babies.
Santa Cruz is a city of madcap fun, with a vibrant but chaotic downtown. On the water-
front is the famous beach boardwalk, and in the hills redwood groves embrace the
University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) campus. Plan to spend at least half a day
here, but to appreciate the aesthetic of jangly skirts, crystal pendants and Rastafarian
dreadlocks, stay longer and plunge headlong into the rich local brew of surfers, students,
punks and eccentric characters.
 
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