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Survived a trip to Commifornia. Damn glad to be back home.
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<blockquote data-quote="nofearfactor" data-source="post: 2762750" data-attributes="member: 1535"><p>Man you got that right. Me and my neighbors are pretty far apart but like my place out here in rural OK we still watch out for each other up there pretty close. Just up the road a few miles from me is Bear Valley skii resort at 7200ft. Tahoe is on a bit further. Back the other way is Big Trees National Park. Not far down one way is Yosemite. Down another hill is the road to Sacramento, back the other way is Modesto and on in to the bay area, San Fran, etc. Donner Pass. Strawberry. A nice little microbrewery with a great ale, steaks and burgers is in town just down the road from my house, Snowshoe Brewery. I love it up there even tho I dont like what is going on in the state, but thats just CA, its always been kind of Fd up there. Its the biggest state. </p><p></p><p>I closed my shop down and left for 2 years end of 99' right when the .dot com bust was starting to affect everything in the valley. I have always kept my place there but moved to Vegas first then on to Des Moines Iowa, then later I made my way on down here east of BA in Wagoner county, been here since 03'. Before we left we had been having electrical brownouts once a month then they went to once a week- they would put flyers out the times and days when your neighborhood would be without electricity. I ran a business that relied on electricity and it screwed us up- plus gas even then was over $4 a gal in some places and heard it was heading to $5. That was 2000. It was crazy how much cheaper life was like in Iowa, then Oklahoma was even cheaper, I freaked out at how little money you needed to buy bigger and nicer houses out here. </p><p></p><p>B u t, I will always love my little place up on the mountain. I go out I-80 west and dont see anything but wide open spaces until I come thru each states largest city on 80 in Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, and then in Nevada, after Reno and Carson City its nothing but winding roads up the mountain past Tahoe and 30 minutes or so Im sitting in my driveway. I go to nearby Arnold for my supplies and eats outs and if I never go down the mountain to the rest of California I am happy, and alot of times unless I go visit a sibling I dont go any where else, usually they come see me when Im back for a bit so they can bring their kids and get out of the city. When I come back home to OK I dont even feel like I was even in the same state that I see and hear about out here because I never see anything but the mountains when Im out there.</p><p></p><p>Wife will likely want to retire here since her family is here and I have half my family here too but since the other half of them are out there I likely will continue to go back and forth between the 2 states for the rest of my life. I dont mind. I love the drives. As long as I can physically operate a motor vehicle I will be making that drive.</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH]48873[/ATTACH]</p><p>[ATTACH]48874[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nofearfactor, post: 2762750, member: 1535"] Man you got that right. Me and my neighbors are pretty far apart but like my place out here in rural OK we still watch out for each other up there pretty close. Just up the road a few miles from me is Bear Valley skii resort at 7200ft. Tahoe is on a bit further. Back the other way is Big Trees National Park. Not far down one way is Yosemite. Down another hill is the road to Sacramento, back the other way is Modesto and on in to the bay area, San Fran, etc. Donner Pass. Strawberry. A nice little microbrewery with a great ale, steaks and burgers is in town just down the road from my house, Snowshoe Brewery. I love it up there even tho I dont like what is going on in the state, but thats just CA, its always been kind of Fd up there. Its the biggest state. I closed my shop down and left for 2 years end of 99' right when the .dot com bust was starting to affect everything in the valley. I have always kept my place there but moved to Vegas first then on to Des Moines Iowa, then later I made my way on down here east of BA in Wagoner county, been here since 03'. Before we left we had been having electrical brownouts once a month then they went to once a week- they would put flyers out the times and days when your neighborhood would be without electricity. I ran a business that relied on electricity and it screwed us up- plus gas even then was over $4 a gal in some places and heard it was heading to $5. That was 2000. It was crazy how much cheaper life was like in Iowa, then Oklahoma was even cheaper, I freaked out at how little money you needed to buy bigger and nicer houses out here. B u t, I will always love my little place up on the mountain. I go out I-80 west and dont see anything but wide open spaces until I come thru each states largest city on 80 in Nebraska, Wyoming, Utah, and then in Nevada, after Reno and Carson City its nothing but winding roads up the mountain past Tahoe and 30 minutes or so Im sitting in my driveway. I go to nearby Arnold for my supplies and eats outs and if I never go down the mountain to the rest of California I am happy, and alot of times unless I go visit a sibling I dont go any where else, usually they come see me when Im back for a bit so they can bring their kids and get out of the city. When I come back home to OK I dont even feel like I was even in the same state that I see and hear about out here because I never see anything but the mountains when Im out there. Wife will likely want to retire here since her family is here and I have half my family here too but since the other half of them are out there I likely will continue to go back and forth between the 2 states for the rest of my life. I dont mind. I love the drives. As long as I can physically operate a motor vehicle I will be making that drive. [ATTACH=CONFIG]48873[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=CONFIG]48874[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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