For those of you who do not live in California, I'm sure you have a certain pre-conceived notion of what California is like. Hollywood would like to have you believe all of California is like LA. That is not true at all.
There is no place I'd rather live than Northern California. We have beautiful mountains, waterfalls, incredible lakes... I could go on and on about the beauty of Northern Cal.
And the beaches up here are nothing like what you see on the movies.
Here are a few images from Northern California. All of them are located very close to where I live:
