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Florida and California are very different. Both have lots of sunshine, but Florida is tropical with lots of humidity and heat. It is also very flat. California is much more diverse weather wise with temperate sunny warm weather with little rain like Spain in the South. and cooler weather with more rain in the north similar to Oregon They also have deserts in the inland south with extreme heat and snowy colder weather in the inland north. California is the most diverse state weather wise in the country and the most diversely beautiful state we have. They call it the land of milk and honey!
Also the politics of the two states is extremely different.
@@corvus1374 well, not South Florida. South Florida mostly agrees with us (in California). Especially the major cities in South Florida such as Orlando etc. Key West also agrees with us.
@@neutrino78x Agree with you how? The exorbitant rents? The high prices? The playgrounds filled with homeless junkies? Unchecked GTA-level crime? Fentanyl zombies and public overdoses? Or poop-covered city streets?
No, we don't all agree with California.
You should travel through the Florida Panhandle & its center which has lots of Hills. Not all of Florida is flat as a Pancake.
@@neutrino78xI’ve lived in Miami and Santa Monica. So FL humidity and rainstorms and hurricanes put it in a different world from sunny, 30 days of rain annually, maybe, with humid of 20%. So Cal doesn’t have mosquitos the size of dinosaurs and crocodiles in suburban private home pools. Boy, you’re wrong.
"Speed enforced by aircraft" means there are typically lines on the road and the aircraft can tell how fast you're going by how long it takes you to travel between the lines. If you're going over the limit by enough then they call in on the radio which vehicle you are to a ground unit who will then pull you over.
They can also mail you a warning ;)
The planes have been on duty for decades. It’s over 1000km north to south, and there’s no way cruising highway patrol cars can spot the folks driving 160km/hour by car unless you’re not paying attention and pass one.
In and Out is overrated. Whataburger is what's up
@@CarpeNutella Exact opposite. Whataburger is dry and boring, In 'n' Out has a huge "secret" menu which makes eating there extra fun. They make a great grilled cheese, too.
@@CarpeNutella I prefer the Habit.
Lake Shasta was low because at the time of this video we were on the tail end of a six to seven year drought!!
ALL OF OUR LAKES ARE NOW COMPLETELY FULL "AND BUTIFUL!" 😊
I live in the area. Our current problem is forest fires 🔥 a lot of what was shown here is now in critical danger as we have been having months long heat waves combined with constant and sometimes strong winds... there are something like 79 forest fires burning in California at this time 😢
Florida & California couldn't be more different. Even the heat is different - humid vs. dry.
San Francisco is actually very humid; just rarely ever hot.
There are some places in California that are humid like Van Nuys, where I live, but generally speaking, it is dry.
@@BTinSF I live in Southern California and I love San Francisco weather, but only in a summertime. Any other time it’s too cold.
@@mildredpierce4506San Francisco tends to be colder in the summer
To understand California (which is beautiful), there are 2 mountain ranges - one on the coast that catches all the moist ocean air and supports those redwood forests, and the other larger range on the East side. In the middle is a 500km long valley that is hot and dry, mostly agricultural.
SF is so very damp because there is a steep and narrow cut through the coastal mountains named “the golden gate” that leads to several large deep bays. These bays are fed by the Sacramento River, which forms a large inland delta waterway. This fresh water supports a lot of the agriculture in the valley. The valley gets extremely hot in the summer - 35-40°C is normal- and in the evening the hot air rises. As it does, it creates a vacuum that sucks in water from 150km out to sea, which rolls in as fog through the golden gate - predictably around 4pm every afternoon during the summer months and blankets the entire Bay Area in deep fog. It’s cold and windy, as the fog comes in fast. This effectively waters the coastal redwoods, and creates the inland fresh water to support the Napa Valley vineyards and so on.
Long explanation, but I think it’s interesting how it works. This is why San Francisco is so uniquely cold, damp and windy compared to the rest of California, with the town of Monterey further south having a similar weather pattern around the Monterey Bay and Salinas Valley farmlands.
Excellent explanation.
@@deviritter5232 beautifully and elegantly written! And 100% spot on! 👏👏👏
Imma Bay Area native and approve this explanation! 😁😁😁😁😁Well done 🎉🎉
San Francisco is such an odd city bc it has micro-climates! That means you can literally be in different NEIGHBORHOODS and the weather will feel colder, hotter, more humid, windier depending on where you are in the city!
No statement has ever been more true! It's almost street to street microclimates
So true, never seen a place like it. Even here in Arizona you have to travel a little further to experience the microclimates of San Francisco
I've never heard of that, how cool!
Yah .. twin peaks is were you'll see the fog rolling over the hill , vary impressive. Mission will be hot while the coast , sunset & richmond district on the coast will be like 60° degrees Fahrenheit . All in one city .
San Francisco had trolleys like Lisbon! Lots of hills like Lisbon too.
Still does
San Francisco bought old streetcars and trolleys from transit companies around the world. I saw a couple in this video. I recall that a few were from Lisbon. Whether they are still using them or not, I don't know.
@@plaidmoon5642 They are. San Francisco has a workshop just to keep these old transit vehicles, from its own cable cars to foreign trolleys, fixed up and running smoothly. Note that there is a difference between a cable car and an electric trolley: The cable cars move by gripping onto a continuously moving cable under the street whereas the trolleys, like those from Lisbon, have they own electric motors supplied with power from overhead wires. In San Francisco, both types are used on different routes.
At 6:16 it's the Carquinez Bridge, across the Carquinez Strait between Solano and Contra Costa Counties. The famous bridge is the Golden Gate, which joins San Francisco with Marin County where San Francisco Bay joins the Pacific Ocean. At 8:15 they cross the Bay Bridge, which connects Oakland and San Francisco. At 8:57 you can see the Golden Gate Bridge in the background.
Union Square is only a couple of blocks from the Tenderloin, a district that's full of homeless people. Most of the city isn't like that, but if you wander around Union Square you're likely to run into it. You won't see as many homeless people in neighborhoods like Chinatown, North Beach, Nob Hill, Russian Hill, etc.
California is kind of a big place, and with size comes diversity of weather. It takes about 12 hours to drive from Mexico to Oregon, and about 4 hours from San Francisco to Lake Tahoe. It has the hottest place on Earth, and also glaciers. The San Francisco Bay Area has microclimates where the temperature can vary widely: As much as 1 degree F (or more) per mile of travel. I could be cool and foggy (jacket weather) in SF and 50 degrees warmer in the East Bay suburbs like Pleasanton.
California has so many homeless for a couple of reasons. First many of them have mental health issues, and California has historically (but not currently) had some of the best facilities for handling that. But between having a relatively mild climate (and places to shelter the homeless for those few weeks per year when the climate is most extreme), and social programs to feed the poor, there's a significant fraction of homeless people who prefer to live that way.
In recent years, despite the economic recovery, a lot of businesses are suffering. This is partly due to a continued reduction in consumer spending but also organized theft has been rising. Powell Street/Union Square in SF is one of the places that has been hit hard; by some accounts, it is a ghost town. Even the Macy's department store has closed.
If a hotel has a swimming pool, you can pretty much count on it being heated during the summer. That may not be true during the winter.
In 'n Out is a treasure. The menu is very simple, but the product is inexpensive and the ingredients are fresh and tasty. And the best part: They're open until 1am.
Golden Gate Bridge.
San Francisco is a Historical City where miners flocked to during the gold rush. There’s a place called Angel Island you can visit and picnic, hike and learn how migrants had to quarantine there before entering the city. You can visit America’s famous Alcatraz.
Dolores Park has a beautiful view of the city.
I think that if you traveled to Florida and California, you wouldn't think they have the same vibe. They both get a lot of sun though.
the major cities in Florida agree with the major cities in California. (they are blue.)
Depends on where on yhe state!
In Florida you get a lot of rain and sun!
@catcountry0099 Florida is king of lightening strikes, too.
@@Eniral441 We get our share of lightening strikes here in California as well; a few years ago, some of the wildfires were caused by lightning strikes. Most of the wildfires are caused by the action of mankind -- such as high tension power lines breaking off in the wind in summer, and sometimes you have psychos who just want to start fires -- but some are actions of nature, like the lightning strikes. 🙂
He drove in on I-80 through the East Bay, then he's on the Eastern Span of the Bay Bridge, then at 8:30 he's on the Western span.
This is my hometown. I grew up in San Francisco and I miss it dearly. Such a beautiful city ❤
The one I always get a laugh at is when out of state folks come to the Bay Area and decide they want to swim in the Bay or at Ocean beach, only to find out that the water is as cold as the North Sea.
The Jeep is a brand owned by Chrystler, and is the descendant vehicle of the WWII Willy's Jeep that you'd see in WWII movies. So many were made that after the war you could get a crate shipped to you for $500 (then), just some minor assembly and you have a Jeep. They became popular with people in areas with few paved roads, but also were used for years by the US postal service. I remember seeing them as a kid in the 80's.
Also, he was on the Bay Bridge, by the look of it.
California is great to visit any time of year, except San Francisco. I used to live in San Francisco. Do not visit in June or July. You will freeze. It can be very foggy, very damp, very gray, and cold. The best time to visit is September, October, November when it's mostly sunny and nice temperatures.
Florida and California are nothing alike. Not even the oceans are alike. Florida has warm ocean and California has cold ocean. Florida is flat. California is mountainous.
Both Florida and California have large Spanish speaking Latino communities but the Spanish is a little different. Florida's mostly come from the Caribbean and South America. California's mostly come from Mexico and Central America.
It's all in whether you'd rather have 69 or 70 degrees F with sun on maybe half the days and no rain (San Francisco) or 95 degrees, 90% humidity and a daily afternoon thundershower (Florida). I've chosen the former and every day this summer, as almost the entire rest of the country broils, I just grin outrageously.
I love the SF fog. We are the coolest spot in the great 48 every summer. I joked that I didn't turn on the heat all year, but now that it's July....😆
I lived in Mount Shasta for 18 months. The town is not much, but the surrounding area is spectacularly beautiful. Lots of snow in the winter, summers are very hot. Both Mount Shasta and the neighboring town of Dunsmuir have surprising wonderful restaurants, I must say. If you are into New Age weirdness, look no further. The coffee table book on UFO sightings just in the Mount Shasta area is over 2 inches thick. Happy Camp, CA, which is fairly close by, has an annual Bigfoot festival. The locals are...an interesting lot.
I live in Florida and we have police planes patrolling and radioing police your location if you’re speeding or disabled or theirs a wreck.
Sean made a trip through some of the most beautiful country in Oregon and Northern California at speed. He missed so much by speeding along to see a city rather than the country. Even his look at Crater Lake missed so much. He checked the boxes but missed what made the boxes!
Agreed. Underestimating the immense size of the United States is a common mistake made by many European visitors, resulting in a rushed itinerary and missed experiences. Whenever they visit a Walmart or eat at an IHOP, I always question why they don’t spend their time discovering amazing local food and more captivating destinations.
how many stops do you want him to make? Do you think someone from UK or Europe really wants to go meet maga?
Main places here on the west coast Seattle, Portland, SF Bay Area, Los Angeles, San Diego.
The thing is that it’s only until recently people are starting to question vacationing in high density cities, not that it won’t change per se, but I think the lockdowns had a huge impact of people from the cities wanting to get in touch with nature. I actually live in the first region Shaun is at the beginning of the video, and there’s a lot of waterfalls that have become more noticed lately. Yet we have at least one being closed this year (which is a shame as this year we had great snow pack on our mountains to have nice waterfalls this summer) because traffic increased dramatically and the park is trying to expand the parking lot to allow more vehicles in.
The area is also starkly different from the rest of the state with different priorities. Not the typical Californian culture people expect depending on where you are at. Some people love it here, others detest it. Honestly as a local it’s hard to pinpoint if it’s worth it or not. The area has been badly damaged from numerous forest fires, the nature isn’t the same. A lot of people visiting recently think it’s beautiful but it’s been hard cause many of our mountains carry scares of these fires. And unfortunately no matter how much we try to live the American dream, we just never have the economy to float in California, even when California was doing good.
@@kate2create738
"he area is also starkly different from the rest of the state with different priorities. Not the typical Californian culture people expect depending on where you are at."
Yes, that's the redneck area of California.
"nd unfortunately no matter how much we try to live the American dream, we just never have the economy to float in California, even when California was doing good."
California is doing exceptionally well. If you want a better quality of life, a huge part of that is your skillset, work on getting yourself a skillset that's worth a higher salary.
There wasn't much to do at crater lake, no boat tours were happening and it was freezing cold. If you aren't from the area how is anyone to know how to search out this beauty ir all this extra he missed? To be honest, i don't see how people spend so much time in the woods or hiking. It all seems the same after a while. And i was raised in the country side.
Redding is horribly hot in the summer, it can get 115 to 120 degrees.
Definitely check out a few other San Fran videos. Theres a lot to see, especially by trolley!
Homelessness has become a huge problem. It’s the weather, it’s a lot of things that I don’t want to delve into, and there’s no simple solutions. I always feel safe, even walking around at night. But then again I lived there for years.
You’ll have to come visit!
Lake Shasta is a reservoir on the Sacramento River. It fills up in the winter rainy season and is used for farming during the dry summer months. When the sign says "speed Enforced by Aircraft" it means that high above you your speed is monitored by aircraft and radioed to patrol cars along the highway that will pull you over if you are speeding.
I live in the San Francisco area, but I am moving permanently to Germany in a month. California IS the best State in the US. No place comes close.
I got to spend two days in San Francisco a long time ago & got to stay in a hotel across from Pier 39....it was a nice place to explore
As far as "speed checked by radar", yes, they really do have police in aircraft circling the area catching speeders. I got a ticket from one in Montana. The plane circles above checking speeds and then radios to a stationary road block set several miles ahead. The plane radios the road block and tells them who gets tickets.
Renting those houseboats you see in the video on Lake Shasta for a week or so (usually to party🎉) has been very popular for many years!
Decades
The San Francisco Bay Area has the 2nd largest Portuguese population in the U.S. mostly from the Azores.
Safety first Sir!!!
Usually it’s a small fixed-wing plane that tracks cars along a miles long straight-of-way on a highway. You can see them in the air doing this so it’s very noticeable.
One of the reasons California has such varied scenery is that it is just so big. It’s about the same size as Sweden. It also stretches very far from north to south, so you can have much cooler, wetter weather on the northern part of the coast than on the southern part.
Sean did mpt plan his road trip too well for going into San Fran. He stayed on the inland roads, so he did NOT go into San Fran on the most famous bridge in the world - the Golden Gate Bridge, which was the longest suspension bridge in the world for about 30 years. He went into San Fran on the Oakland Bay Bridge, which is actually 2 bridges with a small island in between them, so it appears when driving on it that it is one bridge. He relied totally on his cell phone for directions without scoping it all out on maps prior. That is a poor mark of a traveler in the US, where the car is KING! Also, Union Square is where most of the homeless is in San Fran. And as for the pool being inside, and not open to sun light, this is the case for most hotels in America, unless they are in very warm climates most of the year. Motels usually have their pool outside whenever there is a pool. A 'motel' is a hotel where you motor up to it, and usually park right in front or very close to the door to your room, which usually is an outside door and no hallway, although some do have inside hallways and the door to the room is via this inside hallway.
I was in San Francisco this past February. Been there many times. Yeah, it’s got its problems but it is still a great city to visit. Especially over the Golden Gate Bridge up in the Marin Headlands and up into Napa and Sonoma. Our favorite restaurant is still there in SF. No, Florida and California are nothing alike. Looks like he was on the Bay Bridge. Union Square isn’t what it used to be but I do like walking through China Town into North Beach and down to Fisherman’s Wharf. ❤
All cities have issues and bad areas. The problem with san francisco and la is that does areas are right in downtown or next to it, therefore is more apparent. With that said California is the queen of homelessness. 1 in every 3 homeless people in the US are in California and half are in the west coast. Horrible policies and even worse enforcement doesn't help. California used to be my favorite state now is in the bottom 5. Very sad.
California's rain and snow comes mostly in the winter, mostly November-April. Its summers and falls are nearly completely dry.
This video is from 2022, after a few years of drought (no rain) so everything is yellow and brown. Winters 2022 and 2023 were quite wet and the areas shown in these videos are probably much greener now. How green the landscape is, the presence of waterfalls, the height of rivers and lakes, etc. all vary quite a bit year to year, depending on how much winter precipitation we get.
The last 2 winters have refilled California's reservoirs like Lake Shasta. I'm not sure when this video was made. He should have gone to Mt. Shasta--it's gorgeous.
You're darned right CA weather can vary a lot. When I used to work in Concord, CA, east of San Francisco but close enough to still be on the city's commuter rail line (Bay Area Rapid Transit = BART), the daily high in Concord was 30 degrees F higher than in the city of San Francisco on many summer days (98F vs 68F).
The first bridge he crossed in the video was NOT "the famous bridge in San Francisco"--it was the Carquinez Strait bridge across the Sacramento River just before it enters San Francisco Bay.
The second bridge he crossed just entering the city was the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, one of its "famous bridges". You could see the Golden Gate Bridge in one shot of the skyline but he didn't cross it.
A typical night at the Handlery Hotel in downtown San Fransisco runs $135-$151 per night, depending upon the day of the week you plan on staying. If something is going on in San Fransisco it can reach into $500 per night territory, so book early. That actually a pretty reasonable hotel for downtown _anywhere_ in the US.
Ya, jeeps are big in NorCal, Hawaii and Colorado.
Speed Enforced by Aircraft means actual aircraft with people in them, not drones. They've been doing it since the end of WW2.
In the 90 miles from Sacramento to San Francisco, the temperature will drop from 100 degrees Fahrenheit to 55 degrees on the Golden Gate Bridge (and in fog)!
SF does have a homeless problem. Everything is so expensive, rent/cost of living have pushed entire middleclass into suburbs so only people actually in he city are extremely rich or extremely poor. When Covid hit, many office workers began working remotely so there were no need for restaurants to feed the office workers. Restaurants closed, more people lost jobs, etc. No people walking the streets, it was eerie. There are still some remote workers who refuse to come back even now. It's definitely changed since I was young.
Yes, and the suburbs are extremely expensive now too. And have been for years.
I love San Francisco. It’s beautiful, has some really nice parks, fantastic food, best baseball stadium in the country!
It can get cold even in the summer. It’s known for that. It’s also one of the hilliest cities in the world. Very walkable but you will get a workout going up those steep hills. It’s fun.
His hotel is across from a really famous hotel in the city. The st France’s. Been there 120 years. It’s decorated so cool during Christmas time. They had a human sized gingerbread house in the lobby.
The baseball stadium is breath taking.
The weather in the San Francisco bay area can change quickly within a short distance. The ocean air may be cool, humid, and cloudy, while inland just a bit can be hot, dry, and sunny. SFO has special rules for aircraft landing, since one half of the airport can be foggy while the other half is sunny.
Speed enforced by aircraft means exactly that…the California Highway Patrol has planes and helicopters that can track your speed from above and if anyone is speeding they can relay that information to patrol vehicles on the ground and they’ll intercept you and write you a ticket. This was filmed before California received an amazing amount of rain and it raised the lake level back to normal. That was the Golden Gate bridge, which is actually a reddish color. In and Out is a great burger chain! He’s wrong that Seattle and Portland don’t have historic areas, we most certainly do, but I don’t think they spent much time there and didn’t see everything.
He was on a reddish-colored bridge, but it wasn’t the Golden Gate Bridge. He entered San Francisco via the San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge, usually referred to just as theBay Bridge. At some point while he was driving, you could see the Golden Gate Bridge way in the distance, very small.
All of our states are beautiful in their own way! Love and Blessings.
We have micro climates in California. They are very noticeable, and one of the reasons our state is one of the most beautiful places in the world.
I was born and raised in a small town north of San Francisco. I still love it here. We do have too many people. That's because it's so beautiful.
Massive pinecones, I thought he said massive penguins. 😂
bahahaha! Scottish accent ...gets me every time.
In-N-Out is a very good fast food joint, but it is only truly experienced if you know the "secret" menu and customize. Always ask exactly how you like your fries (i.e. low salt, extra crispy) and try making your burger "animal style." They have great customer service and do their best to meet your needs. In-N-Out is also a family owned Christian business!
I've lived in the Bay Area 30 years, those "Speed enforced by aircraft" signs have been there since the 90s, I've traveled on the same highway that guy is on hundreds of times (Interstate 80), in 30 years I've never once, ever, seen an aircraft do anything.
I honestly don’t think they run those planes anymore
Florida and California are night and day Cali has different land shapes heat is dry Florida is a big swamp haha the heat is humid and terrible in the summer the weather is bipolar and it's flat with no mountains they both don't really have 4 seasons
California doesn’t have 4 seasons?!😂 The northern part of the state most certainly does, as does the entire range of mountains and foothills on the eastern side of the state. California has a very diverse range of climates, unlike other states.
Only the southern part of Florida has swamp land. The northern part of the state is rolling hills, except along the coasts.
@@jjbud3124 I think most people might think that ‘rolling hills’ is a bit of a stretch, given that the highest point in the entire state is just over 300 feet above sea level. Florida is exceedingly flat and, yes, swampy, given its rainfall, high water table, and flat landscape.
@@pacmanc8103 Have you never been to north Florida? North of Orlando there are rolling hills that used to be covered with orange orchards that were killed off by freezes. The Gainesville and Ocala areas are beautiful. There are rolling hills - I didn't say mountains. Hope this works: www.bing.com/images/search?view=detailV2&ccid=U8qbvuiL&id=4DCDBC6380C5DC28E408B425FE45F43A89AE52FC&thid=OIP.U8qbvuiLHpFqyaiuTTM-6gHaDi&mediaurl=https%3a%2f%2fth.bing.com%2fth%2fid%2fR.53ca9bbee88b1e916ac9a8ae4d333eea%3frik%3d%252fFKuiTr0Rf4ltA%26riu%3dhttp%253a%252f%252fs3.amazonaws.com%252ffloridatrend%252f15327%252fthe-hills-of-minneola.jpg%26ehk%3dWIqgL22exQwID6vwpN9lOoltUKWgZOajPGVYKKoPNxQ%253d%26risl%3d%26pid%3dImgRaw%26r%3d0%26sres%3d1%26sresct%3d1%26srh%3d620%26srw%3d1300&exph=310&expw=650&q=Hills+in+Florida&simid=608050813106421044&FORM=IRPRST&ck=EEAF0FB62D9EEEDAF48948347E4DB267&selectedIndex=0&itb=0&ajaxhist=0&ajaxserp=I
Love Flori, and here in Yorki. I've travelled to Conni, Tenni, Zoni, Oki, Wisci, Penni, Texi and all over. The U.S. has great states; each one something unique to offer.
Mark Twain wrote (paraphrased) that the coldest winter he ever experienced was a summer in San Francisco. This is because it is so HOT in the huge San Joaquin/Central Valley to the east which pulls the fog layer in from the Pacific to blanket San Francisco in cool misty loveliness. The signs on some of the freeways citing that speed is tracked by aircraft pre-date drones by several decades at minimum. Love living in California and I grew up very near San Francisco and like the famous song, I left my heart in San Francisco.
I remember being in a park near the Mission district to see a concert in June. We had to wear down jackets and scarves it was so cold. The little venue or food truck was selling hot chocolate.
I live in northern California, near Redding but up the mountain at 3200 ft. I have seen 117 degrees in Redding several times in the summer. On the hill where I live, we sometimes get 3 feet of snow in the winter, only 30 miles from Redding. In the summer, the valley people head up the hill to cool off and in the winter the mountain people go into the valley to warm up.
Jeeps were manufactured to use in Europe in WW2. They wanted a light vehicle to transport across the ocean by the thousands. Was made with special features such as carrying tools and containers with drinking water attached to the outside of the vehicles. Also something special with the windshield for protection and carried five passengers.
I live by the Shasta region, the time Shaun was visiting we were going through practically over 5 years of on and off drought. Thankfully this year Mt. Shasta, one of the biggest source that puts water in the lake besides rain, had some good snow coverage this year. To be honest the region above San Francisco has a very different culture compared to most of California, we get confused for being Oregon sometimes. Lately we’ve been getting some traction, mostly since the pandemic, we’re mostly overlooked and most of California doesn’t know we exist, but the heat tends to drive a lot of people away.
Most of the Californian population is concentrated from the San Francisco Bay Area (I count that to include Oakland, San Jose, Davis, etc) down the coast all the to the southern end at San Diego is various cities that the world recognizes as California. Cities such as Monterey, Santa Cruz, San Luis Obispo, Santa Monica, Malibu, LA, etc. These cities have the classic temperature that everyone thinks all of California has, really it’s a huge state, I think Italy can fit in this state, with a plethora of different terrain that the weather average varies depending on where you are at. The only other cities that are more well know outside of the coastal cities I would say is Sacramento, Lake Tahoe, Palmdale, Fresno, and Bakersfield. The other regions people think of is Napa Valley, the Redwoods, the Mojave Desert, and multiple state/national parks.
So California has a lot to offer, most of it varies by region what the predicted weather will be. But my region is dry and HOT, twice we had 120F days this summer. Thankfully have a break of being in the 90’sF, sadly we have another wildfire out of control, again.
Also, we have pinecones that is at least 3 times bigger than that lol 😆
I live 45 minutes from SF . I have never and would never live anywhere else!!! ⭐️☑️
The Bridge at around 6:20 is the Westbound lanes of the Carquinez bridge, it's not famous. The famous Bridge is the Golden Gate, that is north of the city, other famous are the Bay Bridge around 9:00, you can see the golden gate to the right.
Yeah, it's a shame they didn't drive down US 101 and come into San Francisco on the Golden Gate Bridge, but coming in from Lake Shasta, it's a much faster drive on Interstate 5. It's a boring drive though and US 101 is much more interesting.
@@plaidmoon5642 It's more or less what I would have done -- and have, many times!
I took almost the exact photo from Baker beach that’s in the thumbnail!
Love that spot.
In California, always check the skies for small plans checking speeds. I’m a former Brit now living in San Francisco. California is a desert. Agriculture and communities have “greened” the state. In Northern California, the rainy season is from the end of October to March. We have to capture as much water using a series of reservoirs. Hetch Hetchy being the biggest, as it also catches the spring run-offs from the Sierra mountains. In San Francisco we never drive with anything less than half a tank due to the hills will cause the gas tank to be able to feed fuel to the engine, and it stops. Gas is more expensive in California as there are higher taxes and also summer and winter gas blends to keep the air quality as good as possible, given the millions of cars on the streets and freeways. The Handlery is a boutique hotel. An older building that’s close to Union Square. The City, as it’s called, has a few microclimates. It can be foggy in one area (The Sunset and Richmond districts) and sunny not too far away (The Mission district). Always dress in layers as the fog rolls in from June through September. The fog burns off mid-afternoon, but can and will creep in in the mid-afternoon. There’s always a wind blowing as we’re on the water. I’m lucky to live in the north part of the city, and can see the Golden Gate Bridge from my building roof, and walk to it as my daily exercise. It never gets old. The city is very walkable, as it’s a series of “villages” connected by street. The Walgreens mentioned has been targeted as it is easy to rob and disappear due to the crowds. It’s not everywhere. Thieves are opportunists, and target tourists. As with other urban areas, we’re not immune to the homeless and junkies. This should not put anyone off visiting. There are many tourists here at the moment, and we are always happy to host them. Florida is much warmer than California, with a higher humidity as it’s further south and it’s more tropical. The states are great in different ways. Finally, coming over the Bay Bridge, the workhorse of the Bay Area bridges as it is part of I-80 that stretches from San Francisco to New York, and is heavily trafficked by the interstate truckers hauling food and goods to all places in between. The new span will be lit up soon as a charitable organization in charge of keeping the lights on, has to replace over a million lights that have worn out over time due to the sea. The entire system is being upgraded in an attempt to keep the lighting system working longer in between major upgrades to the system. We’re hoping that the span will be lit up nightly before the end of the year.
6:22 - The red bridge is called the "Golden Gate Bridge".
The Bay Bridge is all concrete and it's a double-decker. IIRC, traffic in one direction travels on top, and the other direction travels underneath.
San Francisco is a magical city. I have lived within 100miles of it for most of my life. (I'm 60 and not done yet) I think Idaho and California are far more similar (minus the ocean) than Florida and California, although neither would EVER admit it. My time NOT in SF Bay Area was six years in Boise - the transition was not difficult.
The entire US has a poverty/ inequality problem. It existed in Boise, too. It is just more visible here because an unhoused person is not going to freeze to death in winter here. Since we are in an election cycle, I don't want to open that can of worms on this poor man's channel. But, the Scottish gentleman is right- we need to solve it together.
Side note- Lake Shasta is a reservoir. The water level changes drastically when we have drought, or a heavy fire season in that area.
I rented the houseboats you can see in the video at Lake Shasta in my college years, with friends, every Memorial Day weekend - along with nearly all the Greek life houses and sports teams on campus. Other groups from other colleges nearby would join up too - like Stanford, Chico, Humboldt, etc. It was one big boat flotilla party all weekend long!
4 - I'm from Chicago, IL. I've never tried an In-N-Out burger, we don't have them in this area. Guess I'll have to visit California for a burger. 😂
Dallas TX has In and Out burgers. They are pretty good.
They are so good!
I live about 40 miles east of San Francisco and it's very hot and dry here. It was 113F in the shade in my backyard a few weeks ago. But I can drive to San Francisco and it would be 75F. The coastal fog layer keeps it cool. That bridge you wondered about is called the Bay Bridge. It crosses the SF bay. For the enforced by aircraft, there are police planes that use markers on the roads to time your speed. If you're speeding, they will call a police car and tell them where you are so they can stop and site you for speeding.
I live about 3 hours away from SF. I love it because it has history on every corner. You WILL have phenomenal food, no matter where you stop to eat and it feels accessible. It's a "city" but it feels small. The safety issues are true with every city.
I live somewhere between San Francisco and Shasta lake. It’s dry, but there’s bodies of water everywhere, and lots of crops growing up here.
We’ve had a ton of rain this year, so Lake Shasta is now full again!
I live about an hour east of San Francisco. The weather is crazy here. I live in Byron, CA on a farm. I work 45 minutes back towards San Francisco in a town called Crockett and it's right on the delta. There have been days when I've left my house at 105°, and when I get to work less than an hour later, it's 79°! That's fahrenheit.
Hanging off the side of the cable cars as they zoom up and down hills was so fun as a child and teenager. ❤ Highly recommend
I live one hour north of San Francisco. He probably drove right by my house!
Also, fun fact, palm trees aren't really trees, they're actually a type of grass!
omg..I didn't know that about palm trees. thanks for sharing.
Having lived here in the San Francisco / Oakland area for the last 15 years, the climate is fascinating. The entire state of California has a Mediterranean climate pattern, with wet winters and dry summers. (This is exactly the opposite of Florida's seasonal rain patterns, BTW.) The San Francisco Bay Area runs about 80-100 km north to south, and it has an incredible climate variety in a very small space. Locations near the ocean tend to be cooler and wetter, with San Francisco as the coldest and wettest, but places in the Central Valley (e.g. Stockton, 120 km east of San Francisco on the other side of a low mountain range) tend to be warmer and drier. The inlet of the San Francisco Bay is named the "Golden Gate", which is where the Golden Gate Bridge got its name. In the last ice age, the bay was a river system and the Golden Gate was an enormous waterfall tumbling off a tall cliff, and the scour marks made by the waterfall are still there at the bottom of the now-underwater cliff.
The Golden Gate allows the summer sea breeze through, by being a gap in the coastal mountain ranges. The sea breeze is critical to how the local climate works: during summer months (June, July, August) the intense dry heat (30-35°C) of the Central Valley causes the air to rise, creating a vacuum that pulls in cool moist air from over the ocean. As a result, San Francisco is cooler in the summer than it is in spring or fall, with most afternoons being chilly (~15°C) and foggy. The San Francisco fog rolls almost like clockwork, reaching the western edge of the city around 13:00 to 15:00 on almost every summer afternoon. It's incredible to watch because of how thick the fog is and how sharply defined its boundaries are. There are some great time-lapse videos of it on RUclips and Vimeo.
(Despite the dampness, almost no rain falls. The redwood forests along the coast use the fog as their main source of water in the summer months, collecting it from the air with their bark. They grow incredibly slowly, taking centuries to reach the heights you see near 1:47 in this video.)
And then, fairly suddenly during early-mid September, the fog comes on fewer and fewer days, then stops entirely, and San Francisco actually experiences summer-like warmth for about 4 to 6 weeks, with daily high temperatures closer to 25°C+ than to 15°C. The summer heat lasts into October, when the rainy season begins. A few rainstorms fall here and there at first, and then the bulk of the rain comes around January, followed by a pleasant warm spring in April that becomes cool foggy summer again in June.
Oh, and on top of that, San Francisco itself has a number of local hills (some up to 280 m tall) that make the fog follow strange paths, creating per-neighborhood "microclimates". Some neighborhoods don't experience the fog at all, or don't see it until after the sun sets. The Mission neighborhood is generally regarded as having the warmest microclimate, because it's shielded from the fog by Mount Sutro and Twin Peaks.
8:10 - 9:40 In this segment he's on the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. The east span connects Oakland to Yerba Buena island, then there's the tunnel through Yerba Buena, and then the west span connects Yerba Buena to San Francisco.
The east coast is really beautiful, too. When people think of New York they think of the City, but NY also has the US side of Niagara Falls. There are also many beautiful things from Florida to the Maine coast.
The column in the middle of Union Square with the woman dancing on top of it -- the model for that statue was Alma DeBretteville -- who, in the 19th century, was the mistress of a wealthy man named Adolph Spreckles. He shocked SF high society by marrying her, and she became one of San Francisco's Grande Dames.
You’re now in the backyard I grew up in. It’s called San Francisco Bay area. Looks like he’s on the 101, the freeway I took to work. I’ve moved and miss that place. Went to school there and gave birth to my son there. 49er fan all the way. Lovely weather too.😊😊😊
6:21 that’s the Carquinez Bridge in Crockett California. I grew up there.
In Shasta, it is hot and dry because the marine layer that is meant to cool the area gets stuck on the Trinity Alps (mountains) which is also what makes the Eureka side of those mountains so green and lush and helps makes the redwoods grow so big and strong. San Francisco is cooler because it is right on the ocean and has the benefit of that marine layer (remember the Pacific Ocean is cold on this side of America).
I'm from Oklahoma originally and have commented on your channel about Oklahoma. Having said that I grew up (5 to 30) in Marin County which is what is in the other side of tje Golden Gate Bridge from San Francisco. I have been blessed to have both the Bay Area and OKC make me who I am today!
Mr. Portugal, if you're going to be homeless, would you do so in California and/or Florida? Or would you pick Alaska?
San Francisco is a great place to visit. However, it is one of the most expensive Cities in the US.
We want it that way, we want maga priced out. Please do stay away from here.
amen to that. The median price for a house as of 6.2024 is $1,400,000 in SF.
@@davidschofieldinsf yup. It's actually 1.7 million down here in Silicon Valley. I want it that way. Good for maga to be priced out. 🙂 It allows California, especially the Bay Area, to be a paradise of freedom and liberty, while places like Alabama (I think it was Alabama) want to require public schools to have the ten commandments posted 😲
@@neutrino78x I have an aunt that lives in W San Jose about 2 miles from Apple. About 2K SF. Probably worth 1.5M.
Based on the water level at Lake Shasta, that had to been during the drought. Now the lake is a full capacity and there is no dirt on the shoreline showing
Almost all California lakes hit full capacity this Spring. Shasta might be one of the few that didn't. But there is more water now than in this video.
Shasta was actually the first to fill this year, the issue is that the dam is ordered to release a certain amount of water for the fish in the Sacramento River. A good percentage of the water provides water to some of the Northern cities and sometimes to the Great Valley.
This last two rainy seasons were quite wet and lakes and reservoirs are at or over "full"... they save extra for the hot summer droughts.
That's how lakes typically look in Northern California. The rain and snow melt collected are released down river to supply Southern California with water.
Speed enforcement by aircraft is a method used by some US states to enforce speed limits on highways. The process involves aircraft working with ground units to stop speeding vehicles. The aircraft can provide information to ground units, such as the color, make, model, and lane position of the targeted vehicle. The aircraft can also use markings on the ground to measure distance and calculate the speed of the vehicle.
Those "speed enforced by aircraft" signs have been in place since the 1970's at the very least, long before the existence of drones (They were already up when I started driving in the late 1970's. There were road markings that allowed low-flying police aircraft to calculate the ground speed of cars, which they could then relay to highway patrol on the ground. I don't know if they still use that method, but the signs are still up in some places.
10:44 - Correct. As an American, that's pretty standard for a small room, and they have two people. The only thing smaller really are motels where you're only staying overnight and that's it.
Was in San Francisco a couple days ago and am going back tonight. Will be staying at a Hotel there on Union Square for a couple days also.
The price of The Handlery was advertised around $119, but when you go to book it’s $278. It seems to depend on the day.
Most good budget hotels are $230ish. The one I stay at (if I stay at a hotel) is $200/ night. Hyatt. If you’re a frequent guest is lower. Hotels around Union Square are a good choice.
There are homeless around the Civic Center area which is 4 blocks from Union Square. They go to San Francisco because of the weather and are tolerated by the local community more than most other US Cities. This has been this way since the 70s.
Any questions let me know.
I’m surprised this guy didn’t see the huge open Apple store.
Parking at Stockton/Sutter garage near China town tunnel/Gate.
Union Square are is definitely not an area anyone who lives in San Francisco would recommend for someone to stay; it's only a couple of blocks from the worst part of town 😬
Worried that if his info is that bad to start he may have a rough visit.
To follow up: I checked his channel, he definitely didn't have good info about where to go. It seems like he had an okay time anyway.
My recommendations (/unhinged but detailed rant in the form of a list):
Super Tourist Option:
-Stay in Fisherman's Wharf or the Marina for better views and tourist-friendly area
-Hike around Land's End and go to the Legion of Honor if museums are your thing
-Go to the farmer's market at Fort Mason
-Walk from the Palace of Fine Arts along the beach past Crissy Field to Fort Point
-Go to a bakery in North Beach
-Have a nice meal on Union or Chestnut
-Walk from Fisherman's Wharf to the Ferry building
-Take a ferry to Sausalito to have lunch
Local Culture Option:
-Stay in the Castro because it's close to the middle of town and has hotels
-Have coffee and look in random shops on Valencia
-Go to Dolores Park for the view and Mission Dolores if you like history
-Explore the Mission around 24th street. Eat a mission style burrito. Use common sense.
-Go to an asian bakery in the Inner Sunset and eat your goods in Golden Gate Park
-Go to Alta Plaza Park
-Have a nice meal on Fillmore or Divisadero
-Take a walk along Clement. Join the weird cult at Arsicault but get coffee next door at Breck's.
-Go to the Presidio Parade Grounds for your required view of the Golden Gate. Go to the Disney Museum if you have kids.
My shout into the void is complete
It's a bit more complicated than that. Many of the city's large hotels surround Union Square so lots of tourists stay there. And the city's most troubled neighborhood, the Tenderloin, was always just a few blocks away, but the proximity caused no problems except for the occasional tourist who might wander up the wrong street at night. First online shopping, then Covid and the resulting "work-from-home" changed everything. Union Square was also the city's main shopping district: Macy's Nieman-Marcus, Saks 5th Ave, Niketown, the Apple Store, Tiffany's and all sorts of high end designer clothing stores and shops. But the ability to shop online meant people stopped going downtown to shop. I personally can't recall when I was last inside a department store. And the city shut down tight during Covid. To keep alive, most businesses allowed employees to work from home and have been unable to get them back to the office. That meant downtown foot traffic declined dramatically. Now many of the Union Square shops and even large department stores are closing. It is becoming a shadow of its former self and thus not a great place to stay as a tourist. Meanwhile, the residential neighborhoods are doing just fine. It's where those people who no longer have to go to the office live and are now working.
I reluctantly agree (because I hope Union Square can revive), it would now be better to stay in another part of town. But I don't think proximity to the Tenderloin, which isn't new, is the issue.
I live in San Francisco, and the Hotels on/near Union Square are excellent (esp. The Fairmont IMHO)!
@@joecarcione6636 Now that confuses me because if you live in San Francisco, as do I, surely you know the Fairmont is on Nob Hill, quite a ways from Union Square. You might have used the venerable old St. Francis as your example and I agree that many of the hotels are fine, but the attraction outside the hotels is no longer what it was. Did you read even Saks is now going to require an appointment to shop there?
@@BTinSF My bad; I meant the St. Francis. Obviously, Nob Hill has nice hotels. I just also think Union Square does also, especially around Christmas time
We used to have those signs also, Speed enforced by aircraft, we don't pay that any attention.
5:37 the highway patrol (CHP) have Cessna planes to catch speeders so the pilot will call a patrol and give them the description of your car and license plate to give you a speeding ticket/citation. The planes are usually use in open highway not in cities.
I first saw speed checked by aircraft in the 90s. Seriously. Cos I got my MA in Chico and would drive back to home SF all the time. Minute 6:30: the bridges are the Carquinez bridges. One was redone and the other didn't need it. LIve by there now.
"Here have a look at the bathroom" proceeds to stand in the middle of the frame 10 inches from the lense😂
America's homeless and its drug addicts come to California because of the weather but also because of a social climate that both tolerates them and simultaneously supports them with generous benefits. Some of the ugly encampments on the streets in certain areas have been due to a federal appeals court decision applying only to the western states that prevented them from clearing encampments from the street unless they offered free alternative housing to all the tent-dwellers, many of whom rejected such housing because they were drug addicted (fentanyl these days) and would not be allowed to use drugs in free housing. Anyway, the Supreme Court overturned this policy just a couple of weeks ago and California's governor has ordered cities to clear the encampments. San Francisco's Mayor says there is a major effort to do so coming in August. It doesn't hurt, of course, that there is an election coming. We'll see what happens.
But I am someone who lives in San Francisco half the year in recent years (the other half--winter--I'm in Arizona) so changes in this situation are more obvious to me when I've been away for several months and return. To me, this summer (2024) the city already looks a lot cleaner and the homeless camps are in much more limited areas than was the case when this video was likely filmed. Also, while Union Square is a center of hotels and therefore tourist activity, I'm not sure it's any longer the best place to stay. Much of the shopping is closing because more and more people are shopping online and there is less and less foot traffic downtown due to the work-from-home phenomenon. Although San Francisco is a center of new technology like AI, it may be some time before these new industries absorb the office space downtown and bring new workers there to support the retail that used to be there.
Much of the life of the city is now elsewhere, in neighborhoods peripheral to Union Square and downtown like Hayes Valley, the Marina, the Castro and Haight and even in the western neighborhoods in the Richmond District and Sunset. I'd recommend tourists these days consider looking for lodging away from downtown. One nice thing about San Francisco is its small size. Except at rush hour or on special occasions, an Uber ride of less than $15 (sometimes less than $10) should get you almost anywhere you want to go, and the city has excellent public transit although I personally avoid it because I still don't want to risk Covid.
California definitely has diverse climates. We have Death Valley holds the record for the highest temperature recorded on Earth. We also have great surfing on the coasts, and great skiing in the mountains.
The idea that people watch your videos and not subscribed is wrong. As soon as I got to your second video, I subscribed. I'm also subscribed to The Scottish Guy.
I once had a helicopter drop down in front of me to indicate for me to slow down. This was one mile before a tunnel through the Rockies, so seeing this helicopter, with the giant Rockies as the backdrop, felt like being in an action movie. I slowed down to the speed limit.
Most ofter, Speed Patroled by Aircraft indicates an airplane, marking your speed based on little markers along the road. The airplane radios a patrol car and you get a ticket.
All of our California lakes were lower than normal until we had a wetter winter a couple years ago.
That was the San Francisco Bay Bridge, used much more than the Golden Gate, and the toll charges are a bit lower.
The first Bay Area bridge he goes over crosses the Carquinez Straight and we call it the Carquinez (CAR-keen-ezz) bridge but the actual name is the Alfred Zampa Memorial Bridge but no locals know that or we do, we ignore it bc it was named after we grew up calling it the Carquinez Bridge. It's not famous. I think you might be thinking of the gorgeous Bay Bridge that spans from the Oakland/Emeryville border to Treasure Island and from Treasure Island to Sanfrenciso as we call it 😁
You got me to watch this with SF...my ancestor was the mother of San Francisco. Juana Briones. Epic woman.
Bridge #1 is the Benicia Bridge,and bridge #2 was the Oakland Bay Bridge.
Even in Colorado, the weather and climate can be very different in different parts of the state.
Yeah Scotland! Love doing long distance treks and have done 2 there.
I like the guy that is doing the traveling. He goes to places that most Reactors who come to America for a visit don’t go to. He let you know that there are other places in America that are worth visiting besides theme parks chain restaurants or tourist towns.
What I wish someone who visits America would do is go to medieval times or pirates adventure in Buena Park, California or the medieval times in Florida.
These are themed restaurants that give you a two hour show while you’re eating.
The Highway Patrol has aircraft that can fly slow and they can see if you are speeding. Tell the payroll cars which cars were/ are speeding.