IT'S HOT WHERE YOU ARE, KILLER HEAT, IT'S COOL ON THE NORTH COAST

Quit suffering and get your butts here. It is so hot over most of the country. It's in the 60s along "The Lost Coast." Why are you there? Pack up your campers or tents or use the internet to find a hotel, motel, inn or bed and breakfast on the Northern California Coast and cool off while you have fun and see some of the most beautiful landscape in the United States.

You've probably never heard of McKinleyville, CA, but it is a cute, modern and clean small town in Humboldt County. It has all the modern conveniences, dining, shopping, airport, Holiday Inn, etc. Clam Beach lies north of McKinleyville. There you will find rental spaces for campers or tents (right on the beach). If you prefer, you can camp further north along the coast by pulling your trailer into a space surrounded by forest in one of the many RV Parks in Trinidad. Most of them rent spaces for tents as well. Maybe you'd prefer a romantic room in B&B with ocean view.

What if you want the ocean the view with the fun of Vegas. Trinidad offers that as well. Get a room with ocean view at Cher-Ae-Heights, enjoy fine dining, gambling and a show at night after a day of birding and hiking at Tolawa Dunes near Smith River.

What else will you do? Enjoy the cool weather while enjoying hiking trails in any of the State/National Redwood parks stretching along the coast, wind surf across big lagoon, river raft the waterways of the Klamath watershed, horseback ride through the world's tallest trees in Orick, fish for crab (or buy it fresh at Mr. Fish or any of dozens of fine restaurants), fish for salmon and steelhead in any number of rivers and watersheds (during the right season), visit the red pandas at Sequoia Park Zoo in Eureka, have an incredible beer at The Lost Coast Brewery, sit on the edge of the world and watch the sun set on the other side of the ocean. You can do almost everything.

Maybe you never heard of Brookings or Gold Beach, Oregon, but if you spent a few days there, you would be so much cooler than you are in Ogden, Phoenix, Denver, Albuquerque, Dallas, Cleveland, Shreveport, New York, Miami...and you might never want to leave some of the most beautiful shoreline in the world. The high temperature in Orick today (07/22/2013) was 67. Leave the heat. Come to Northern California. Bring your sweater. Highway 101 north of Arcata has less traffic than the residential street I lived on in Ogden, Utah. People have no problems stopping their cars along the highway and crossing it to take pictures of the Roosevelt Elk herds living in different spots between Big Lagoon and Crescent City. There are not enough pull outs for all the places you want to stop and take a look, because the scenery takes your breath away. They are often occupied.

I always wanted to live in a beautiful place with rolling hills, beautiful trees and wild flowers. On May 7th, 2013 I realized I've been living in that place for a year.

I lived my dream and stood in the middle of wild flowers blooming in abundance everywhere.

The ocean lie just behind me.

This is Orick, "Home of the World's Tallest Trees." I haven't shown you those.

I really believe you should come see them.