@anthracite yeah... visiting family in Humboldt for Xmas, driving down 101 from the Washington border where it's two lanes (sometimes just *one* lane) and two feet of margin between you and a twenty-foot dive into the ocean... we went to Agate Beach (the one up at Patrick's Point State Park) and walked down and just... walked, and stared at the ocean, and interacted with it.
and the redwoods... I miss them *so much*. other pine trees somehow just aren't the same.
@green [just poking my head in here to mention i grew up in Humboldt and it warmed my heart someone else knows of/goes there. i miss the redwoods and the Arcata Plaza more than I can afford to admit]
@Edelwood !!! <333 there's a new restaurant just off the Plaza (well, right next to the Arcata Theater) called Renata's, they make crepes and serve mochas in actual soup bowls with no handles that have *scoops* of thick cream floating in them like an ice cream coffee float. I ate there once and I want to scoop the whole place up and move it to Seattle. there were a couple of other places we went that were also *so good* and so inexpensive and I miss it so much ;____;
@green GOD FFFF sorry test post
@green okay I'm too wordy. That sounds great. There's a donut shop that made the only version of a donut I've ever seen (custard-filled maple bar) and some other things but objectively I know it's just rosy lenses and going back won't be great
@Edelwood if you can go back for, like, three days, that's just about right. enough time to see how the scruffy parts have gotten worse, but spend some time in the redwoods and eat some amazing food, not enough time to get REALLY BORED, then *foop* outta there. XD
in my ideal world I've have a summer house there up in the woods, with high-speed internet and maybe a couple of sheep, but I wouldn't want to spend *all* year there...
@Edelwood I would absolutely move back to Humboldt if it wasn't for the 1. economy and 2. people. also I do like getting occasional snow up here. but the redwoods have a physical *presence* that just... it fills my chest, even thinking about it now. <33333