Let's hear it for California!

[Taverner]

Damn it's a beautiful day here, near the Stanford Campus!

Rolling green hills, mist at higher elevations...and you can see the bay, the sun shining off the water.

Up near my home in Livermore Valley it was beautiful too - rolling golden hills and the smell of anise everywhere.

I'll be in the Redwoods this weekend ...and I can think of any better sensory experience. The woods cool you down, the smell of a redwood forest is nothing less than sublime, and the trees are just beautiful in their own right.

[Crazy Guggenheim]

1. From Marin, Co. CA.

California is the best!

[Taverner]

2. Marin is always beautiful

Mill Valley is one of my favorite cities...redwoods, boats and Isabel Allende...

[livetohike]

3. The hills are brown down here (San Diego county)

but I was camping up near Big Sur last weekend and it was truly beautiful. Love the redwoods and oh my God, the stars were awesome.

:hi:

[Taverner]

4. Sounds awesome!

I swear, I would love it if every DU'er could come to California to see why we love it here so much!

[TlalocW]

5. Too bad

It's destined to fall into the ocean once Lex Luthor fires a nuclear missile to hit the San Andreas fault line so that all the real estate he bought to the east of it will become the new coastline.

TlalocW

[Crazy Guggenheim]

6. How do you know it won''t happen the other way ............

:woohoo:

[Kathleen04]

7. Woo- hoo for CA!

Alas I won't be back until December, but that's the best time of year in Southern California anyways, IMO. :)

[Taverner]

8. Ahhhh I love the area near Ojai...

And Big Bear...

And as far as the city of LA goes...Santa Monica and Venice are always favorite stops of mine

[XemaSab]

9. I live in the Nazi part of California...

Nazis and Tourans....

[Taverner]

10. You mean you live in Fresno?

Awww poor baby...come out here to the bay and we'll set you up right...

Handcrafted ales in Berkeley, fish tacos in San Jose and a hike in the redwoods in Santa Cruz

[XemaSab]

11. Not Fresno

the hills outside Fresno.

I grew up in the Bay Area, and I like it there, but I could NEVER afford to live there. :(

[Taverner]

12. Well there's always Arcata

All the liberalism of the bay area, all the redwoods of the California coast...all of the marijuana in the west coast

[XemaSab]

13. I moved here from Arcata

because not only does Arcata suck, but everyone living in Arcata sucks (except mike_c).

On edit: I think I'm just burned out on California in general. Before you ask, Mill Valley, Redding, and Sacramento suck too. Oakland and LA do not suck.