How to plan a trip to California

So Brandon and I know virtually nothing about California. What we do know comes from episodes of Veronica Mars and MacGyver. Brandon has never been there and I only went there twice during high school. So thank goodness for the Internet and google. They have both been vital to planning our trip.

Here are some websites we have found useful.

This one has a long URL but it as been the best website at explaining Southern California to us. We used it to find out about our beach campsite.
http://www.family-vacation-getaways-at-los-angeles-theme-parks.com

Here is the website for Magic Mountain. By buying our tickets online, and scheduling our trip before May 22 we were able to pay only $25 per ticket.
http://www.sixflags.com/magicmountain/

Here is the website we used to get our hotel in Vegas. This website also has a great visitors guide.
http://www.vegas.com/

This is the website we used to get our California hotel.
http://www.hotels.com/

And here it the website for our Late Late show tickets.
http://www.ocatv.com/latelate/

And the most important site of all: http://www.mapquest.com/ Of course we will have a road map, but this website has been wonderful for figuring out distances between the places we want to go.