Absolutely spend the time in San Diego.
It's hot and humid in LA? I know it gets warmer in LA than the LBC but wow. It was 77 and no humidity here yesterday.
It was a weird start to the week up here in the Sac area. Cloudy with 'high humidity' for the region. Humidity got up in the high 30s!
Well, if you live in the Sacramento area, you are that much closer to Tahoe. I was up there for the last couple of weeks, and drove back to Lafayette yesterday. They were doing roadwork on the eastbound side of Interstate 80, so that eastbound traffic was pretty backed up in spots. Westbound was at the limit. The weather in Tahoe has been great lately. The Lake was glass on Tuesday, when we boated down to The Grove, which I still refer to as The Beacon.
Heading up tonight. Will fish the truckee tomorrow and return sunday for a world cup party.
I will be curious to read how it goes. I have been hearing that the crowds around Tahoe and Truckee have been intense this year.
There was a pretty big invasion of teens at the public beaches on Tahoe's north shore. Probably due to the weather. It was 100 all over the country, but low 80's high 70's in the Tahoe Basin.
I love the ocean side of San Francisco and Marin in the summer. Best weather on the continent in July and August.
Yeah, that's why I put question marks in there, because SoCal is definitely not hot and humid (especially compared to Florida).
My house doesn’t have it. None of the places where I have lived in California have had A/C.
I graduated from high school in Santa Barbara, and it is not a place for me to live. However, there are nice places to visit for several days. I would recommend the wharf and the adjoining Beach. Haven't been there in 3 or 4 years but almost certainly State Street is a very good place to browse and find local eateries. The carpinteria State Beach is very nice and a couple miles down the road there is Rincon point which is one of the top 10 surfing spots in the world. (Directly on the Santa Barbara county/Ventura county line on 101) It is directly adjacent to 101 and you may want to just stop and park there and take some pictures for 20 or 30 minutes because in the summer the surf doesn't break at Rincon. There is also downtown Montecito, where many of the truly wealthy people live, such as Oprah and Meghan Markle. Not super special, but reasonably nice, and maybe a place that you can tell other people that you visited.
To quote Mark Twain: "The coldest winter I ever spent was a summer in San Francisco."
A lot of places around here don't need it. I don't have it because it doesn't even get into the 80s all that often and there's always an ocean breeze.
It gets hot for 2-3 weeks in the summer. Overall, though, it is lovely. Today, for example, is a perfect 74 degrees inside and outside with a nice breeze.
Pliny is good, but Russian River makes a lot of other good beers, as well. The two products that I will grant as being better in Northern California relative to Southern California are beer and sourdough bread.
