SO TRUE! We've lived in McKinleyville, north of Eureka for years now, and our SoCal and out-of-state friends just can't wrap their heads around the vast rural areas north of the Bay Area and maybe Napa-Sonoma wine country! We've started telling them that northern Humboldt is "almost Oregon", since Trinidad and Crescent City aren't helpful landmarks to them, either. We also say we're "behind the Redwood Curtain" and refer them to the Star Wars scenes filmed here (Planet Endor's Ewoks, etc.) The few who've come to visit are still amazed at how far we are from "civilization"

, and we like it that way!