Adam hasn't done any travelling in his life. It's just been in the past few months that he's even left his home town to go away to college. He's never heard of Beacon Hills. And what he knows of California is all the stereotypical California things that everyone assumes about California.

"Henrietta, Virginia." Vicariously, he doesn't expect her to know about Henrietta. "It's a long way from California. Are you close to the ocean?"