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It’s nice to have the weather that goes with it…it must be fun to live off the land year round, to be able to live in an un insulated house etc…Up here, living like that is not so much enjoyable…it’s freakin tough and expensive because of the cold.
I get the point of the post though, we never think of Californians like this exists….hope the fault line is away from them.

Goodby to Kamela as of Jan. 6, 2025. Her last duty: appoint President Trump.

California is not a bad place to spend some time, if one can avoid LA and San Francisco, which used to be nice in days of auld. My grandparents, aunt and uncle moved to LA permanently after grandfather started several businesses there in the 1940’s onward, thus my first visits were in the 1960’s, when LA was sort-of habitable and “cool”. Hollywood is dead now.

Later, driving trips in 1970’s were very enjoyable. I hate the word, diverse, but California has lots of differing and interesting climates, as it is a huge state. My great great grandfather lived in California in the 1880’s before coming to Alberta, and my child lives/works in greater LA.

I do own a frivolous “retirement” home in Palm Desert with 37 indulgent swimming pools/hot tubs, a golf course (I do not do golf) and mountain/palm tree views. I would certainly like some of that NOR-CAL apple cider, fermented or not, made from heritage apples! A lot of the desert folks are actually Republicans. It is the narrow strip on the west coast who voted heavily for Harris and her weird running mate, if one looks at county maps.

Dustoff says:

November 18, 2024 at 10:42 am

if one can avoid LA and San Francisco.

San Diego is going that same direction. What a shame.

Thank you for the retro movie. I saw it the first time around, and am enjoying it again.

We do have a huge British/French past in Canada, which can not be re-developed by having indigenous ceremonies or celebrations of the tiny number of blacks in the military and irrelevant hamas noisy people, most of whom are not citizens.

“The Lost Coast”

That’s what this area is called. Only place in California where there is no North South highway along the coast – too many mountains. It is also very wet – maybe over 100 inches in a year and most of that in only 7 months.

My wife and I were driving north along 101 to see the redwoods about 15 years ago. We stopped and looked at a map and drove west on a tiny two lane road through Honeydew, Petrolia, the coast and on to Ferndale. This where the filming takes place. It is remote and fascinating. Hope it stays that way.

We are from Montana and except for the ocean, you would think you are in NW Montana or Central Idaho somewhere.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lost_Coast

L says:

November 18, 2024 at 12:49 pm

Montana is awesome, much like Alberta, and the wet coast is called so for good reason (different planet). I recall driving with my young adult son across the continent, using the US route (I had driven the TranCanada several times), stopping at the Chicago Bears stadium and enjoying good nosh (in eastern USA) along the way, as well as torrential rain crossing the Mississippi. Then miles and miles of driving across straight terrain. My son did not even want to go to the Grand Canyon.

When we got to Montana, I knew by the sunny skies and cumulus clouds that I was almost home again to sunny Alberta. My grandparents and father and cousins are/were southern Alberta ranchers, and my mom took us on driving trips to buy school dresses in the US and I went to a bar when I was 9, when mom had car trouble and wanted to buy the helper guy a beer.

Now in Vancouver, we do have the rain forest issue, but minus 30 temperatures are distant history for me now.

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