When CA wrote it's enabling legislation and regulatory rules after passing Prop 64 enabling a legal regulated cannabis market, it looked pretty good. Sure, it was heavy in red-tape and annoying fees, but this is California. And, coming in late to the game, they had the benefit of experiences from other states which had to be retrofitted in those states. I was optimistic that they'd come up with a bunch of great ideas. But just days before the...

There's been a lot of rain lately, and I don't see a sun break in the forecast for quite some time. In the meantime, I'll be doing a lot of sitting until favorable travel conditions appear. I'll be several days in Bandon exploring the area.

One of my favorite places to park is the City-owned Shoreline RV in Crescent City. On the bay, next to a river, across a channel from the lighthouse, next to the marina, seals barking on the wharfs. Nice day for travel through the redwoods, but the rain will return tonight for a few days. Rain or not, it's a quick 15 mile drive to Brookings, OR to get gas and no sales tax. I think I'm done paying CA prices for gas... Crescent is in Del Norte...

California's legal marijuana regulations are a mess. That's the opinion of everybody involved, not just my idea. When the rules went into effect January 2018, temporary licenses were issued because the rules were still in work. This was risky for license-holders, but this type of thing has happened elsewhere and the impact was minimal. Trouble is, there was a deadline date for the temporary status, and when it expired in June, the response was...

I made it to Eureka, and will be here a week at least. It took a long time from Fort Bragg on Highway 1. I cannot recommend anyone pulling a trailer take this road unless you need to check this route off your life list. There are a lot of 15 mph hairpins, I don't think I got over 40 mph, and only the occasional turnout going northbound. Luckily there was very little traffic. The Mendocino coastline is beautiful, though . Lots of rocks and...

Fort Bragg is along CA-01, the Pacific Coast Highway, in Mendocino County. I'm glad I finally made it out here, but the challenge of the roads here hints that it might be a while before I return. When I sat down to update my blog, it wouldn't allow me to log in. I did some obvious things, then sent a note off to tech support. Today it's fixed, the hosting service updated my version of Wordpress, which I wasn't anxious to do, but now I've got...

Every year I make this trip north on 101, and always stay at the fairgrounds rv lot. Ukiah is a must-stop so I can visit the Solar Living Center, which is now called Eco Terra something. The other reason I stop here is to do a weather and conditions check. I expect, and have experienced, forest fires, floods, mudslides, and road collapses along 101 in California and Oregon. This year conditions are great so I can finally move over to Fort Bragg...

This is an update on the bills being considered for cannabis in Washington state. Rumor has it that politics stopped the attempt to allow homegrown cannabis in the state, potentially leaving WA as the only state that doesn't allow it. It's hard to discern why the reluctance. There's always the moral objections to cannabis, some licensed growers might fear the competition from 6-plant grows in basements, and law enforcement complains they can't...

A break in the storm allowed me to comfortably reach Santa Rosa, and highway 101. I'll be here a few days waiting out the rain. I'm at the fairgrounds, which still has a lot of the trailers supplied by FEMA for the wildfire victims well over a year ago. I didn't expect to find so many still here, but apparently there's another deadline on Monday to have them out. I don't see anyone making any moves to leave, though.

As planned, I made it through the central valleys and am now in a decent rv park waiting for the next storm to start. Flood warnings are posted, and I'll be watching things in Sonoma county. Hopefully I can make it over there on Friday. Meanwhile it's books and video games here.

Bakersfield is not what you'd call a tourist city, but ahead of me is flooding and high winds so I'm sitting for a bit until the weather breaks. Maybe on Sunday or Monday I'll make it to Lodi, then re-assess the situation. I'm in a nice RV park, but there's not a lot to do in town, especially in the rain.

I've been hanging out in Yuma for a while, watching the weather systems go through. Arizona got everything lately, but all I really saw was some wind and a bit of rain. The outlook looks pretty good, at least enough so I can get to Sonoma county. Just to mix up the scenery a bit I stayed at Pilot Knob, which I haven't done for a long time. Good sunrises and sunsets, and not crowded. I was about 1 mile from the border, and anticipated a lot of...