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weathershak
Mar 23, 2017Explorer
jmtandem wrote:You can drive half hour in many states and find completely different conditions and scenery. Where I live in California there are very few rules enforced, hundreds of thousands of acres of Forest with redwoods, some of the cleanest rivers in the whole country, some epic fishing, spectacular off roading, seasons with very little traffic, and mostly friendly people. I've been to Almost 40 states and there is nothing like the real northern California. Above Humboldt.
Unfortunately most people think California is Los Angeles and Fresno and big cities. Just like most people think Nevada is Las Vegas. But both states have vast regions of unspoiled, very rural and unsettled land with great resources. Most of California north of an east-west line approximately along the IR 80 corridor is totally different than southern California. Northern California is almost like a different state than southern California. And of all the big cities I have ever been to and was born in New York so I do have some big city knowledge and history, San Francisco is by far the most beautiful, cleanest, and probably has the most diversity and things to do. A few short miles from San Francisco is the California delta, 1000 miles of waterways, all of the area is still twenty years ago, laid back, lots of great RV camping, boats of all kinds, etc. The California bashing gets real old on this forum mostly from folks that have never really experienced California. The great America author Mark Twain when first seeing Lake Tahoe said it was the 'fairest picture the whole earth affords'. It still is. There is lots of California that is not Los Angeles or Bakersfield.
X2 I agree. I think anything in proximity of Rt 80 is RV friendly. New Jersey for example, like California, gets a bad name. Warren and Sussex Counties are beautiful and loaded with great RV friendly areas.
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