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[Sweetleaf]

location: Extreme Northern California
Favorite Giants Player: The Romonator
Favorite Former Giant: Darrell Evans, Robb Nen
Other Teams/sports I root for: SJ Sharks!
Anything Else: Let's go duck huntin'

[spliff(TONE)]

By your name and location, I'm going to guess that you are in or near the Humboldt County area?

[lolPhillies]

^lmao, name and location. Only a Californian would get that.

[Sweetleaf]

By your name and location, I'm going to guess that you are in or near the Humboldt County area?

Haha! Good guess, but on the other side of the valley It takes me a long damn time to drive to the beach and you've got WAY better weather.. Butte, Tehema and Lassen

[spliff(TONE)]

Word, word. I don't live in Humboldt anymore, but I was up there for almost a decade puttin' in work. I'm sure there is a lot more warm weather and sun off the coast at least. That fog bank and never knowing what time of the day (or year for that matter) it is really started getting to me after a while. Basically only like a half dozen or so days per year where the temps raised above 70 degrees it seemed.

[Sweetleaf]

Word, word. I don't live in Humboldt anymore, but I was up there for almost a decade puttin' in work. I'm sure there is a lot more warm weather and sun off the coast at least. That fog bank and never knowing what time of the day (or year for that matter) it is really started getting to me after a while. Basically only like a half dozen or so days per year where the temps raised above 70 degrees it seemed.

Yeah, there's days here when it's like 107 that I'd take that 70 degrees in a heartbeat. On the other hand, I wouldn't want to be out night fishin' on a day that doesn't even hit 80. But yeah man.. Foggy mornings and hoodies in July? Jeeze, throw in some abalone steaks and chanterelles and I'm sold cold

[spliff(TONE)]

I guess it's one of those grass is greener on the other side kind of things. I really liked the cool weather, and didn't mind the rain for my first few years up there. Only thing I really miss about it now is how damn cheap it was to live there (compared to the Bay Area)!

[spliff(TONE)]

Chantrelles mushrooms though? Oh man, there was some restaurant in Arcata or Trinidad that had a ****ing killer creamy pasta dish with chantrelle mushrooms that I would slap someone to eat right now.

[lolPhillies]

[Sweetleaf]

Chantrelles mushrooms though? Oh man, there was some restaurant in Arcata or Trinidad that had a ****ing killer creamy pasta dish with chantrelle mushrooms that I would slap someone to eat right now.

Nice!! Wouldn't mind knowing where that was. It's been a few years since I have been out that way. Usually just end up going into Mendo or F Bragg.

Used to spend a ton of time out there. Getting meadowfoam honey at the Arcata farmers market, going for oyster shooters the Grotto in Eureka, Smokin' Moses oyster sauce from Trinidad, that killer little German restaurant in Orick, California rolls from the japanese place in Arcata Square, the Thunderbird inn, Christies milkshakes, Humboldt U, 53 degrees in the middle of summer. Not too many places on earth like that. Good times

[spliff(TONE)]

The cool summer is definitely ideal for working from home....

Also, I've been surprised at how well the sushi spots in Arcata have held up to the ones I've come across in the Bay Area. Never had a taste for sushi when I first lived in the Bay, and always figured that sushi made by a bunch of white folk in Humboldt would be garbage compared to the likely more authentic spots around where I live now.

[Sweetleaf]

The cool summer is definitely ideal for working from home....

Also, I've been surprised at how well the sushi spots in Arcata have held up to the ones I've come across in the Bay Area. Never had a taste for sushi when I first lived in the Bay, and always figured that sushi made by a bunch of white folk in Humboldt would be garbage compared to the likely more authentic spots around where I live now.

Yeah, when you finally conquer that "raw fish" thing, it's tough to beat good sushi. I could live on it 4 or 5 days a week easy. Just couldn't afford it

[spliff(TONE)]

Fer sure. I pretty much was having it that often the last year I lived up there (was on a gluten free diet and had a girlfriend from Costa Rica that was obsessed with raw fish).

[Sweetleaf]

I tried Gluten free once. Too complicated. I like glutens too much. Hats off to ya, bro. That's a tough diet to be on. They sneak that **** into everything...

[spliff(TONE)]

It was highly recommended by my doctor at the time for health reasons; I hated it with a passion. It really wipes just about every option off the board (though it is easier to pull off now; I see gluten free sections at every grocery store these days). Wacky part was that going through all that effort seemed to do little to nothing for me, so now I'm back to eating gluten all the time.