I live in southern coastal Oregon and used to drive this route all the way to the Napa Valley to visit my relatives 2 or 3 times a year for many years!! My favorite stretch of road is between The Avenue of the Giants all the way up to Crescent City. What a lovely drive. It took over 8 hours from my place to my Mom's. I sure miss doing this since everyone has moved away, there's no reason to anymore.
oh hey I currently live in Humboldt County (Arcata)! Its a really beautiful and special area, I absolutely love it here. Definitely suggest it to anyone who hasn't gone
Great place to visit. Ft Humboldt, Humboldt Bay, Arcata, Samoa Cook House, Trinidad, Famers Landing. Great food, very nice people and some beautiful scenery. OH yes, Ferndale and Fortuna too. Rio Del, Scotia on and on.
It's all part of the unique Pacific Northwest (western Oregon here) The forests, rivers and mountains are magnificent, the coast is unspoiled, majority of the towns and cities aren’t ugly and sprawling and the people are generous and down-to-earth.
Good one as usual, Kyle. Never been up there, but my Mom and Stepdad used to RV up there in summer before he passed away, so it's nice to see some of their old stomping grounds.
I live in this area (I was born in Eureka in 1967). You passed by the exit (701) where my apartment complex is at around 7:53 in this video. I have always loved this area for its sheer beauty. Sadly, not all of the people are as nice as they used to be, but there are still plenty of wonderful people around here, and plenty of great places to visit.
@@Ging-Freecs King Salmon exit is 700 and I could use it or 701 if coming back from the south (i.e Fortuna or Ferdale). I use exit 701, because I usually go to Eureka for shopping and Dr. Appt.
I quite liked music switch when freeway ends we enter the southern edge of Fortuna. Looking forward to the next installments - my trip north on US 101 a few years ago ended around Trinidad.
Moved to Eureka at the end of '22 .... what an amazing Northern California coastal city .... but you'll have to deal with summer highs in 60's and low 70's 😁
Fortuna. Art Bell. C Crane. For as much as I ordered from C Crane for awhile there, this video is the first time I'm actually seeing what Fortuna, California looks like, even if it's from US 101.
I lived in Arcata for a while back in hmm, 1973? Hard to recall. I was rooming with a bunch of other kids, all students at either CR (College of the Redwoods) or Humbolt State College, which later became UC Humbolt. You didn't mention UC Humbolt when you listed the local colleges, did UC Humbolt later become CalPoly Humbolt?
Excellent video as always, Kyle. It's great to see the forests of Northern California. I really like the music behind your outro - you used it to brilliant effect in your video of Medicine Bow on Wyoming Highway 130: ua-cam.com/video/FIaq490FHtE/v-deo.html. I'm looking forward to the rest of 101 in California.
8:17 pretty much every freeway section of the 101 north of Marin County was built before 1970, when the environmental lobby starting flexing its muscle to impede public works projects.
My haunting ground for many years, really loved the North Coast, especially between Eureka and Crescent City. Eureka was invaded by hispanic and Asian wannabe gang punks in the later 90's, snd made the nice mall unsafe.
I live in southern coastal Oregon and used to drive this route all the way to the Napa Valley to visit my relatives 2 or 3 times a year for many years!! My favorite stretch of road is between The Avenue of the Giants all the way up to Crescent City. What a lovely drive. It took over 8 hours from my place to my Mom's. I sure miss doing this since everyone has moved away, there's no reason to anymore.
Sitting here in Eureka and watching this while eating dinner lol. Always interesting to see where you live from someone else's perspective.
Great video. Would be cool to see side roads into some of the towns.
oh hey I currently live in Humboldt County (Arcata)! Its a really beautiful and special area, I absolutely love it here. Definitely suggest it to anyone who hasn't gone
I lived in both Fortuna and Arcata 20+ years ago and it was nice to see what had changed and what hadnt. Dig the content
Great place to visit. Ft Humboldt, Humboldt Bay, Arcata, Samoa Cook House, Trinidad, Famers Landing. Great food, very nice people and some beautiful scenery. OH yes, Ferndale and Fortuna too. Rio Del, Scotia on and on.
Great video Kyle.
This is part of California the average visitor never sees or even knows exists.
Thank you! And I couldn’t agree with you more!
It's all part of the unique Pacific Northwest (western Oregon here) The forests, rivers and mountains are magnificent, the coast is unspoiled, majority of the towns and cities aren’t ugly and sprawling and the people are generous and down-to-earth.
Good one as usual, Kyle. Never been up there, but my Mom and Stepdad used to RV up there in summer before he passed away, so it's nice to see some of their old stomping grounds.
I live in this area (I was born in Eureka in 1967). You passed by the exit (701) where my apartment complex is at around 7:53 in this video. I have always loved this area for its sheer beauty. Sadly, not all of the people are as nice as they used to be, but there are still plenty of wonderful people around here, and plenty of great places to visit.
An apartment complex on the hill? That up past the Mexican place and the Grange?
@@Ging-Freecs King Salmon exit is 700 and I could use it or 701 if coming back from the south (i.e Fortuna or Ferdale). I use exit 701, because I usually go to Eureka for shopping and Dr. Appt.
One of the smoothest road surfaces in California
I quite liked music switch when freeway ends we enter the southern edge of Fortuna. Looking forward to the next installments - my trip north on US 101 a few years ago ended around Trinidad.
Thanks for tuning in, I appreciate it!
Moved to Eureka at the end of '22 .... what an amazing Northern California coastal city .... but you'll have to deal with summer highs in 60's and low 70's 😁
Fortuna. Art Bell. C Crane.
For as much as I ordered from C Crane for awhile there, this video is the first time I'm actually seeing what Fortuna, California looks like, even if it's from US 101.
It’s so beautiful,I love it here! Thanks for the great trips!
Wow sunny. Been there with damp low clouds most of the time. Gas only $5.60s lol. Like it there, though.
A sunny day is indeed rare in Eureka!
@@InterstateKyle Not during the summer, thankfully.
I lived in Arcata for a while back in hmm, 1973? Hard to recall. I was rooming with a bunch of other kids, all students at either CR (College of the Redwoods) or Humbolt State College, which later became UC Humbolt. You didn't mention UC Humbolt when you listed the local colleges, did UC Humbolt later become CalPoly Humbolt?
Excellent video as always, Kyle. It's great to see the forests of Northern California. I really like the music behind your outro - you used it to brilliant effect in your video of Medicine Bow on Wyoming Highway 130: ua-cam.com/video/FIaq490FHtE/v-deo.html. I'm looking forward to the rest of 101 in California.
Eureka really does look like a nice place to visit. It reminds me of Monterey down on the central coast: history, culture, tourism... you name it.
Fortuna was actually named for the Portuguese community. Same word.
The parts of US 101 that's at the Pacific Coast is a seek peak at how the highway will be like in Oregon & Washington- but as a 2 lane road.
US-101 north of Trinidad is definitely what the drive is like in Oregon and Washington that’s for sure
it pleases me that people can see the wondrous place i live. do you live up here kyle?
it looks more scenic than I-5
It’s really a matter of preference. I like both personally
@@InterstateKyle I-5 north of Redding is scenic. I drove it southbound during my grand road trip in October of last year.
8:17 pretty much every freeway section of the 101 north of Marin County was built before 1970, when the environmental lobby starting flexing its muscle to impede public works projects.
8:53 is the mall
I live close
What happened to the video with the bus on fire?
That video is still live. It’s I-70 going up into the Rocky Mountains from Denver from the 2022 season.
I lived in Eureka California from 1999 to 2003. It’s improved some, put the town still leaves much to be desired.😒😒😒😒😒
My haunting ground for many years, really loved the North Coast, especially between Eureka and Crescent City. Eureka was invaded by hispanic and Asian wannabe gang punks in the later 90's, snd made the nice mall unsafe.