@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]