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mrnoodle · 08-10-2005, 04:53 PM

I spent a good year travelling around California, from Lakeside to Merced to Napa to Redding, and found really cool people all the way up. San Francisco and L.A. have high concentrations of weird, but much of the state is indistinguishable from the midwest, attitude wise.

When I was growing up, I thought everyone from California had a surfboard. I thought every child could swim underwater for 5 minutes, and everyone had seen a dolphin in the wild.

They thought we all skiied. 35 years and counting, and I've skiied 5-10 times. I think it's close to the higher number, but I'm not sure. People around here go skiing like others go on a picnic, so it's not particularly memorable.

08-10-2005, 04:53 PM	#127
mrnoodle bent Join Date: Feb 2004 Location: under the weather Posts: 2,656	I spent a good year travelling around California, from Lakeside to Merced to Napa to Redding, and found really cool people all the way up. San Francisco and L.A. have high concentrations of weird, but much of the state is indistinguishable from the midwest, attitude wise. When I was growing up, I thought everyone from California had a surfboard. I thought every child could swim underwater for 5 minutes, and everyone had seen a dolphin in the wild. They thought we all skiied. 35 years and counting, and I've skiied 5-10 times. I think it's close to the higher number, but I'm not sure. People around here go skiing like others go on a picnic, so it's not particularly memorable.