It was good to get out of California. Port Orford is a nice little town, more a village. It has a tiny port that works with boat lifts and dollies or trailers to store the boats on high ground. The high point here are the coastline views, I think this village has three capes or heads nearby which I'll explore tomorrow.
From Crescent City I can go to Brookings, OR; Grants Pass, OR; and Eureka, CA. The highway to Eureka involves a one-lane road, and driving at 25 mph around redwood trees. Del Norte is adjacent to Humboldt, Curry, and Josephine counties, very productive cannabis locales. Last week the county re-affirmed it's ban on all cannabis business. Which means they have chosen to leave everything to the illegal, black, market. As a consumer, this isn't bad...
After 8 days of rain (and 2 earthquakes) I got out of Eureka and landed in Crescent City at one of my favorite rv parks. I'll be here a few days; the forecast is sunshine for a week which makes the Oregon coast a most pleasant drive ahead of me.
It's been very wet here, so it was a good time to watch government tv while the new ordinances for cannabis in Humboldt County were being presented and public input taken. Spend a week watching public policy being made? I wouldn't recommend it. California's cannabis legalization system seems to go by the term "dual permitting", which means you need a local jurisdiction's permit to get a state license. I was in awe when I first saw the California...
I've heard/seen references to "California Earthquake Authority", which struck me as a bit odd as it sounds like they authorize and regulate earthquakes. That is entirely plausible in this state. Turns out, it's an insurance program. But this morning I sat through a 4.5 magnitude for about 30 seconds. Just about any size of earthquake is of little matter in an RV, and this was a tiny one compared to others I've felt. So I thought of calling the...
The phrase "Humboldt Grown Cannabis" has a potential marketing value of billions of dollars, kinda like "Napa Valley Wine". As am I'm here in Eureka, I can watch the government tv channel for County meetings, the City of Eureka, and the City of Arcata. Jurisdictions that are serious about getting this stuff right work pretty much all the time on cannabis, mainly because they see it as an existential issue. There are about 5000 farmers in...
California's new legal system seems to be working, though it's impossibly early to tell for sure. I'll be talking about that more, but there is one place where it didn't work. Calaveras County is in the Sierras, and was once a logging place until the mill shut down. The county went ahead and authorized many cannabis farmers in 2016. Once they had their permits they could build out, grow a crop, and pay the taxes. In January 2018, the county...
It took almost a week for the rain to let up enough so I could travel. I'm now in Fortuna, about 20 miles south of Eureka. There will be two nice days, then a new rain thing will come in. At least I'm on the coast now so there's something to see.
I'm heading to Eureka tomorrow, and this article came out today. It's by far the most comprehensive and accurate description of the cannabis scene here right now. Recommended.
I've written about this place many times. It's a must-stop when I'm in Ukiah. I was surprised to find one of the very first legal pot shops in California on the grounds. It had just opened, there were two people plus a security guard, they had product, prices were low enough to make me think they've made an error. Their claim to fame is that they are totally solar-powered. What was striking is the setting: the center is a collection of...
I am at the fairgrounds in Ukiah, a place I've stayed in many times. Like Sonoma County, it has trailers for the fire victims, about half the capacity of the park, leaving the good middles spaces for us travelers. FEMA arranged for rv's on dealer's lots to put into whatever parking spaces, public or privately run, were available. Last fall they occupied everything. Now they are down to 50%. So I'm in a regular routine rv park surrounded by model...
The forecast called for a storm to come in today, and stick around for "several" days. It was a beautiful morning so I packed up and left for Ukiah, about an hour's drive north. If I'm going to be stuck waiting out bad weather, I'd rather be in Ukiah than Santa Rosa. I got a small look at the fire damage in Santa Rosa. What happened last fall was a typical wildfire: high winds pushed a grass fire around, perhaps scorching the oaks and conifers....