Wanda: I second that. Beauty/comfort zone is such a personal thing.
I love where we live in the rolling oak studded hills of Central California with it's open vistas/lots of sunny blue skys & of course greatweather year round..but the trails are disappearing & our valley is getting overpopulated as much of Calif is. A few weeks ago, we looked in the Medford /Ashland area for possible places to re-locate. It has many areas with densely forrested canyons spotted with smaller meadows. Further out you get some rolling hills, but not the same as home. Even though it was breath takingly gorgeous with losts of BLM Land to ride on, I felt claustophobic & couldn't wait to get back to Santa Ynez. We're going to look next in the Bend/Crooked River Oregon area that has more open vistas & blue skys nearly year round. We'll see if we can adjust to the colder than Calif. winters/year round dryness/and starker high desert look. The plus side is there are lots of trails near enough to ride to & property is about 1/3 of what a comparable horse property would be here with mostof the amenities we are used to here in Calif. I feel like Goldilocks in our search....either too wet, too dry, too closed in, too much fire danger..... what to do???!!! Anyone want to weigh in on this?? Kaaren
