Searching for some of the neatest houses in California, Huell travels from one of the state's most public houses to one of the most private. He starts out in downtown Sacramento at the former Governor's Mansion, home to 13 of the state's first families from 1903 to 1967. He gets a personal tour of this grand Victorian house, now a State Historic Park, from Kathleen Brown, daughter of former governor Pat Brown. Next, he goes to Tulare County's Outdoor School of Science and Conservation (SCICON) located on 1,100 acres of land in the Sierra Nevada foothills near Springville. With a group of the school's 6th-grade students and teachers, he hikes several miles up to an elevation of 3,500 feet and arrives at a small, one-room wooden cabin built by turn-of-the-century miners that later became the home of Irvy Elster, an honest-to-goodness hermit, from the 1940s to 1960s.