Just Wondering

Monterey and Santa Cruz gets humid in spring and fall. A lot of fog time. 60°F and high humidity is freaking cold if standing in it for more than 15 minutes. I was in Chicago during Christmas, walked down a block from hotel to an eatery. I was the only person wearing a t-shirt. It was 10°F and very low humidity.

My friend while living in Roseville, CA, usecto drive an ice cream truck in CO. He would getvhis best customers when schools in. He sold lids and sometimes got frisky with the women wanting more than ice cream.

I'm familiar with the Salinas Valley lived there between ages of 11 and 13. Familiar with Paso Robles, Fresno, Solidad, Tular, and Truckee for the non city lifestyle. As for desert areas I rather move to Utah, cheap gas and its naturally soft water, farming communities, and between NC and CO for getaways. I have my heart set on north east mountains of NC. Its just an hours drive to Tennessee. Nice lakes and rivers. One thing Cali does not have is southern hospitality and respect. Kids will open the door and hold it as you enter. If you drop something along your path and nobody notices, the next person that comes by it will place it to be noticed if you should return, looking for it. You break down on the side of the road, someone will go out of their way to help. Church life is come best dressed and traditional hymnals. I grew up southern from my grandparents who were Arkansas transplants in the 50s. Church and family values were key under their roof.

Mom lives in a small town up in the mountains, above Redding. At one time it didn't have a signal light, but tourism has made it a mad house, soon after the signal light was implemented. Santa Cruz, my ols stomping ground and neighboring communities is over populated. Monterey is a shell of its former self. It's pretending to be a city. All the coastline communities dump sewage into the bay. There are rip tides that circulate bacteria into the shore. One area in particular, Soquel has posted no swimming hazard signs that were not posted during my life living in that area. Los Gatos use to have orchards... not any more! Carmel's 17 mile drive and Davis, CA both have sustained zero or very little growth, since moving away for 20 years. American River trail near UC Sacramento use to be a good spot to take my dog at the time. Now nobody goes passed campus bridge, because they get assaulted by transients that claim that area. Garbage litterally floats around the river banks. If you need to use a restroom, you are given a key or required to purchase an item. Even the native buisness owners have to schedule their lives around the influx of commuters that gladly take the hour drive to work, just so they can live on the coast line. I can't fathom living anywhere along the coast anymore. The only nice relaxing areas are away from population. The best time to visit Cali is in September at the end of tourist season and when schools are in. Sorry for the big rant but Cali is not the place for me any more.

It's spring break here. Just sayin'.

As an over the road truck driver in 2004 and 2005, I had seen California. It was interesting... It is the only state I am aware of that has all four seasons, year 'round. Within a day's drive, you can be in a complete different climate, without leaving the state!

What blew my mind was the first time I was in California in 2004, roughly February of that year. I delivered a full flatbed trailer's worth of plank wood to some random wood storage yard and the yard workers were sitting on the porch of the yard trailer office, in parkas, but it was in the low 60s! That blew my mind, because of being from southeast Pennsylvania, that time of the year, I'd be in a parka and the temperature would be in the 20s and 30s!

To be fair though, sixty degrees in southern California in February, is cold to the natives.

Just wondering...

Why the hell is there an ice cream truck roaming around right now when the kids are still in school? The guy is a little too early in the day, as the kids are still in school for another two to three hours.

I'm a fourth generation Californian and the first time I heard someone call it Cali, it was a woman who was born and raised in the Delta. But she was clearly a heathen.

And, to be pedantic, sierra as in Sierra Nevada would be translated into English as saw, which is why it's not the Sierras.

I love California, all of it, but most of all I love the not quite as sleepy as they used to be towns in the Central Valley.

California has everything you want and everything you don't want within a day's drive.

We never call it Cali and we've both natives.

The San Joaquin Valley where I and CalCan live is surprisingly a lot like rural DFW-adjacent Texas. You could transplant a town like Waxahachie (where I lived for 5 years) from Texas to Kings or Tulare Counties and the only real differences would be people's accent. Go down to Bakersfield and it's more like West Texas. Hop over the Grapevine to SoCal or over Pacheco Pass into the Bay Area and it's rather like going into another state entirely.

True story.

Um it is a rather large state. Are you familiar with CalCan’s stomping grounds? It doesn’t seem like it if you think the entire state is overpopulated.

Nobody I know that grew up in California grew up as a southern redneck like me. Being central cali surfer dude and southern redneck is like watching a Japanese guy sing country on youtube.

I also explained I am different and conform to the environment. Blue collar white collar or no cloths to define us what so ever.

I would love to tell you what Cali life was like when I lived around my old stomping grounds, but they don't exist or their existance was eaten up by tourism and over population. Don't tell me I don't know Cali. That is why I moved away and only visit.

You're the best lmao!

"You're only being ridiculous if you're wearing clown shoes and nothing else."

I save those for lifestyle parties and public busses.

They could be referring to Sierra County or Sierra town... taking Hwy 89, towards NV. Or a woman. There are fewer true Cali people in other states than there are living in Cali. A service tech way out here where I'm at noticed my car at the time came from a dealer in Redding, CA. His wife use to live there. Go figure?

"I put them in the category of people who say "Sierras" instead of Sierra Nevada or Sierra"

sticks out tongue defiantly

FFFFTTTHHHHHHHHHHH!

You're only being ridiculous if you're wearing clown shoes and nothing else.

Born and raised in CA. I'm speaking from a native standpoint. I'm well aware of the people who use that term who have lived here. I put them in the category of people who say "Sierras" instead of Sierra Nevada or Sierra. It's already plural. Or "New Years" instead of New Year or New Year's Eve. Just a grammatical faux pas. I'm being ridiculous on this. Realizing as I'm typing, but I deserve the clap back so 'submit' lol.

I dunno, I still call it Cali, and I was still calling it Cali when I moved back here from Texas about 5 years ago.

Although I'll admit that more often nowadays, I use terms like "My Beloved Clownifornia", "Shithole" and "CalTransSucksistan". Which is actually kind of unfair, because as long as you get away from anything that humans have built here, there's great beauty in this state, from the coast to the Sierras, although I'm not a fan of the desert which has a savage beauty of it's own (emphasis on "savage").

Live your own LS. That's what we always say to anyone. Just 'do' more than you 'say' and all good. Also, you couldn't have been a California transplant for very long if you call it "Cali". Nobody from California says "Cali".

Yep, I'm 60 but all the 55 to 60 year olds here, in my neck of the woods, seem worn down by comparison. I no longer live in Cali, southern VA is a bit different with fit lifestyles.

I am open minded but all male resorts, while being on my own, would challenge my comfort zone. I'm not social like most, and it's not common for a lone heterosexual to be amunst gay men. I rather just be alone. But I did start all this to break away from my introverted self isolation.

I'm sorry if what I share is hard to understand. I'm not what anyone would expect as a man, and I have tried my best to explain through the different changes in my profile prior to what it is now, and the posts I created in the open discussion forum.

Over7Under8 get lost if you're a tire kicker which is basically what you're sharing. We don't need a window shopper here telling us how we planned our day or any other thinking was wrong.

Shoo fly...

Wow, that was way more than the nudge was intended. But seems to hit a nerve.

I will say, however, "by my fit body and younger appearance, and the all male resorts would be a challenge"

You're 60, bro. Are you being serious? lol

Gosh, I guess my nude happy face profile piccy, you miss? None of my profile is staying, that is why the default image. I came here as a distration for something I thought I would never have. So don't feel that I've became disappointed here in my eventual leaving. In reality the main reason I started here was to jump through hoops to access Pandora's Resort in TN. The few clothing optional resorts I tried, I did not fit in so well, by my fit body and younger apperance, and the all male resorts would be a challege, while being a single guest. Any way, my interests are no longer to satisfy my feelings of a new life being alone. I'm not on a midlife crissis at 60 , if that is a thought. My body and mind havn't quite caught up to my age as of yet... woken from a self induced mental coma from a nightmare past life. Give me another 10 years, as it runs in my genetics. I always had to be an Amoeba of sorts to shape myself into fitting in. So the default profile image, sort of depicts me more so than any picture I can post.