On I-80, 73 miles East of San Francisco/14 miles West of Sacramento. A small agricultural school founded in Davis in the 1920s has blossomed into a 1,000-acre regional campus of the University of California. Heaped with accolades for its research into environmental protection and clean forms of energy, the university – and its 20,000 students – set the tone for what must be the state’s greenest community, one which has been recycling its waste for years and one where there is a bicycle for every inhabitant. Ponder these things as you drive through, but don’t stop: eco-friendliness doesn’t make for interesting viewing.