A day in the life in the North

[Topper]

Stumpy, do you have a nice wall to shoot the wood chips over into the neighbor's yard?

[Neverna]

Now shuffle on back to your bark-o lounger. Its another dreary day in the UK in a brick house with no yard.

A flat in a dreary suburb of a northern English city.

[helge]

a brick house with no yard.

My garden is bigger than your garden(own estimate)

Has real grass too

And Dandelions !

Many

[Norton]

Texan! Stumpy?

Hardly. Stumpy and I are both Northern California boys. Good liberal folks and like Jeremiah, we always had some mighty fine wine.

[Stumpy]

Stumpy, do you have a nice wall to shoot the wood chips over into the neighbor's yard?

Actually tops, I launch the chips into blue buckets and then put them under my hedges are around the place. However if I angled the chipper up a bit I could easily pollute my neighbors yard.

[Stumpy]

Hardly. Stumpy and I are both Northern California boys. Good liberal folks and like Jeremiah, we always had some mighty fine wine.

Amen to that Norts. Best place to have lived growing up. Definitely feel blessed for that. California had it all.... outstanding weather, unlimited outdoor activities, incredible and seemingly endless employment opportunities. Sadly its not so much nowadays. I think we enjoyed the best it had to offer.

[misskit]

^ I’m glad I lived in Northern California when I did. It was a paradise.

[aging one]

12-35 years old in Northern California. Going back to see the kids in May and will be in SF, Sonoma County, Humboldt County, up into southern Oregon, down through Weed Mt. Shasta and the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys to LA and back up the coast. Really looking forward to it.

[Edmond]

A fling here moved back to her large family farm near Stockton to raise her young boy after a few years of separation from his Thai father.

Seeing all the nature stuff they get up to, I can't say it doesn't look like the correct decision.

At the time the only thing I knew about Stockton was the Diaz brothers. MMA fighting legends not a country and western duo. Looks like a fun city to party in.

[Edmond]

^ I’m glad I lived in Northern California when I did. It was a paradise.

I think most adults nowadays think where they grew up was paradise. Thinking back to us growing up hanging out and biking round the woods, castles, and the lakes etc etc.

I think it's probably down to seeing how people are growing up nowadays more than anything else - head stuck in a phone in their room 24/7, or sitting with their friends wherever with their heads in a phone, as I've mentioned before, even with their bladdy headphones in looking at their phones in restaurants or walking with their friends. What a shitty way to grow up compared to running around woods and castles and all sorts of cool places without any of that zombiefying shite.

[cyrille]

I think most adults nowadays think where they grew up was paradise.

News just in from a frog in a coconut shell.


That massive leap from 'who you talk to' to 'most adults' on the planet was impressive though, freddo.

[Edmond]

Thanks. :-) *ribbit*

[Stumpy]

12-35 years old in Northern California. Going back to see the kids in May and will be in SF, Sonoma County, Humboldt County, up into southern Oregon, down through Weed Mt. Shasta and the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys to LA and back up the coast. Really looking forward to it.

My wife and I heading back in November to see my Pops. This time we are working to get our niece set up to come. My Dad would like to see her. They connected a long time ago when he was here. I think we will rent a big motor home and do a road trip from the wine country, to SF, San Diego then blitz over to Las Vegas to see my racing buddies and take her out on the town. Then come back north. My Dad will come with us which will be good for him to get out and about. Should be a blast if she can get it squared away. My wife and I are helping her with the visa application.

[Norton]

I think we will rent a big motor home and do a road trip

Go for it bro!

EXPERIENCES / HIGHWAY 1’S MOST SCENIC STOPS
HIGHWAY 1’S MOST SCENIC STOPS
Highway 1’s Most Scenic Stops

Pull over along California’s classic road trip route—also known as the Pacific Coast Highway—for these essential spots

California’s coast-hugging Highway 1 is what dream drives are made of. The iconic roadway—which extends for more than 650 miles from Dana Point north to Leggett—offers endless vistas overlooking the Pacific, with plenty of redwood trees and wildlife sightings along the way. The most well-known stretch runs along California’s Central Coast from Santa Barbara to Monterey, passing by the unspoiled coastline of Big Sur. Be sure to check out these must-see spots along the way, listed in order of south to north—which keep the panoramic ocean views on your left. (Ed. note: 47 miles north of Cambria, northbound Highway 1 is closed, resulting in a Highway 101 to Highway 68 detour that will add about 35 minutes to travel time. Southbound Highway 1 travel is unaffected. Limekiln State Park is also closed.)

Regardless of where you start and end your Highway 1 journey, be sure to be a responsible outdoor recreationist. Though region-specific in name, the principles set forth in the Big Sur Pledge apply anywhere. It offers guidelines for respecting property, protecting natural resources, camping only where permitted, being mindful of fire risks, and driving safely on coastal roads.

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