OT: Oh California/RH as a clearing tool PICS

California is a great state with a lot of great people residing there. Beautiful pictures but you forgot to have a knife in at least one of them!
 
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DanBo82 said:
There are quite a few places up further north and east of me that become vast, snowy wildernesses. During Vietnam when my father was in boot camp at Camp Pendelton, near San Diego, it snowed. He says seeing snow on palm trees is one of strangest things he's ever seen. I'm not a snow guy, so others could probably answer your questions better.

We used to go to Big Tree state park when I was younger and there are vast, snowy wildernesses up there. Mark Twain lived somewhere up there.

Calaveras County is an extremely nice place to visit and very un-"California"-like. Small towns, country, lakes, forests and full of one of my favorite attractions, calcium deposit caverns.


California should at least be three states IMO: northern, bay area and southern. According to economical info (and reasonably, by size, if compared to the eastern states...) it should be at least five. 50 is just suck a dang even number though...
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There's a little known place called Tahoe.
 
I hope I get the chance visit the your beautiful and diverse state one day. Thanks for the pics and story.
 
My wife's sister and BIL live upslope of Danville, on the lower flanks of Mt. Diablo. The hill country there is pretty, when the grass is green. They must get a little more rain than you do, the hills by you look more like scrub, with little grass.
 
I was stationed at MCAS El Toro in the eighties, but that was in SoCal near Laguna Beach. I use to enjoy driving to Big Bear Mt., or Lake Elsinore, San Juan Capistrano. I drove down the Baja Peninsula in Mexico once. The northern part of the state looks real nice, I would like to visit some time.
 
al g blenny said:
There's a little known place called Tahoe.
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I knew I was forgetting somewhere :D

I've been to the region twice for business, but both times it was directly to Reno and back, I didn't get to visit any of Tahoe :(

I think my mother was afraid to go near Nevada so we never went to Tahoe when I was a boy, she's a Southern Protestant from a small town out in the sticks in TX and she doesn't like gambling, drinking, she doesn't swear... She probably thought if we got too close to Nevada we'd get sucked in to Vegas ;) I'd always get to hear the rich kids talk about how they went to Tahoe over winter break. Maybe why it didn't come to mind, repressed, bad memories :)

I might go there instead of back to Yosemite, I'm sure I can find a nice place in a national forest to go get lost in. Lake Tahoe is so gorgeous...

resinguy said:
My wife's sister and BIL live upslope of Danville, on the lower flanks of Mt. Diablo. The hill country there is pretty, when the grass is green. They must get a little more rain than you do, the hills by you look more like scrub, with little grass.
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That's a nice area, there's a small town or township called Diablo right there in the shadow of the mountain. When I worked in the area in the early 2000's, I saw a "Diablo" police car, it was a very nice looking Camaro, very different than the Crown Vics they drive everywhere else.

They do, they get a little more rain from the air from the bay meeting with the air from the valley. It's much more lush and I enjoy the "country" areas over there more too, but it's much more expensive. Up here is very dry, further from... well, everything I guess... and much less expensive, which is the main reason I live here.

Yeah... ask me to tell you how pretty I think it is here in a few months when everything is brown... I still like it, but when its green it just feels better.
 
Born and raised in Cali love this state and most of its people. I just dislike the gun and (since this is a bladeforums) knife laws. Btw, what part of Livermore is that. When I first transferred to the Bay Area I worked in Livermore and I didn't see any place like that, even out in the deepest part of Livermore. Someday I would love to live in placer county or Tahoe. Nice to see a fellow busse knife guy not to far from where I live.
 
I just paid blade forums for this years Gold Membership. I noticed that the charge went to a company in San Jose CA. Is BF based in Cali?
 
al, the Silicon Valley (San Jose area) is where the dot com bubble really rose and burst hard around here. There's a lot of residual server space and IT professionals there, it's probably just where the equipment/equipment nerds are... I don't think Spark is in CA, but I don't know.

Pointman, a few posts back I said I'm way up in the mountains, about 25 miles on Mines Rd. Livermore (Alameda Co.) is just my technical mailing address. I'm in Santa Clara (San Jose) Co. and I'm also near two other county lines (San Juaquin and Stanislaus, kind of a quad-county border nowhereness called San Antone Valley, though most people say San Antonio... Unless you're a motorcycle/bicyclist junky, most people don't know this area exists. We get bird watchers starting about this time of year too, they're a rowdy bunch... There's a place called broadside boars up here where the guy has a bunch of property and keeps it stocked with different types of hogs, he's got little cabins and you can stay up to three nights I think. I don't want to advertise for him, but I think he's got a website.

Mt. Hamilton is on the San Jose side and there is an observatory up there as well, it goes up to about 4500 feet, I'm at about 2200, the city of Livermore is 400. If you go left at The Junction bar and grill (the only establishment up here) going from Livermore you end up in Patterson on highway 5.

The Junction is cool, the old man who runs the restaurant is a retired cop and barber. Most people have long dirt driveways and gates, so the Junction is the unofficial post office up here as well. If they had bacon, I wouldn't need to go to town hardly at all.

***They do have bacon! I'll have to see how much they'd charge me just for a side order :D***
 
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Great pics! It's is a great time of year in the coast range.

Did some hog hunting north of San Luis Res. in the southernmost part of Stanislaus county some years ago...good times.

I am in Modesto...it is sort of like the belly button,...nowhere in particular but near some interesting places...

Epic wineries in Livermore if you ever find yourself in the area and enjoy wine!

Murphy's and Lodi areas fun too but the wines are not as accomplished IMHO...let the flaming begin.
 
I wanted to take a quick second and thank those who don't favor CA as much who stood by and let this thread run it's course.

I had said that our economy is the largest and we have more scientists, blah blah blah, but what I didn't say is that we are also the most populous state, so it's really just math that we'd have more of any particular type of person. If you notice, I said nothing about how many people are incarcerated here or overall crime rates...

CA isn't everyone's cup of tea, I know that, but again I appreciate those of you who had enough respect, either for me, for BF, for America or just basic human respect to hold your tongues. I think everyone should be proud of where they live, that's how to make it better.
 
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