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Old Nov 14th, 2013, 09:42 AM
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janis - your're from Northern Calif. What can you tell me about the stretch from SF to Eureka, and about Eureka itself?
I'm still planning on SF and Yosemite, in fact I just booked the flights this morning. But now I may need to change my plans a bit and after Yosemite instead of going south go north. My youngest daughter just informed me she wants to move to Eureka!!!!! My son moved to SF almost two years ago for a job, and my oldest daughter moved to Berkeley in Sept for grad school at UC and now this. We are from Massachusetts and youngest daughter left 6 months ago with her boyfriend to experience living somewhere else and went to Tenn which they don't like so now this. They have very little money and no specific job prospects (neither have finished college) and no idea where they'd live other than "seeing lots of stuff on craig's list". I'm thinking this is not a good idea but what do I know. Anything you can tell me that I could pass on to her? And then, if she does go through with it, any suggestions for stuff to do on the way up there (5 hours!!) that might make me and the other daughter fell less bad about having to ditch Death Valley and the central coast.
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Old Nov 14th, 2013, 10:05 AM
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US 101 past the exurbs is quite nice. The Ave. of the Giants parallels it and will provide a break from a straight through drive.
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Old Nov 14th, 2013, 10:46 AM
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101 is a great road and hwy 1 is GORGEOUS.

As for Eureka - the main industries and job sources are the Community College, county/city Gov't and pot cultivation (not kidding)
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Old Nov 15th, 2013, 04:16 AM
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Thanks, that makes me feel a LOT better!

Well, actually it does about driving up there part, if they do end up in Eureka. I have vague memories of a long ago trip where I drove from SF to Washington along the coast (I do remember Ferndale) and I know it was lovely but of course I can't remember what was where.

As for Eureka.... Got any other suggestions I could give them of places in California that are not horribly expensive to live in. They originally were thinking of Santa Cruz but ruled it out as too expensive.
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Old Nov 15th, 2013, 08:29 AM
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For inexpensive (which is a 'relative' term in CA) one needs to go places like the Central Valley or really rural areas like Siskiyou County (just one example).
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Between the University of California and the Cal State system, there are many cities and towns (Arcata near Eureka is one) with universities which could make an inland area more appealing.
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