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Originally Posted by maleficent
oooh I'm jealous... I've always wanted to go there... mmmm garlic....
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Mal, it's a bit of a cow town, and the garlic festival is about the greatest thing about it, but it's close enough to San Francisco, etc., to make a longer trip out there worth while.
My summer trip has already happened, but I highly recommend it to anyone and everyone, if you can get in. Up in Trinity Center, CA (about two hours south of the Oregon border, 5 hours north of San Francisco), is a cabin area called Trinity Resort (about 20 minutes north of Weaverville on Hwy 3). It's like a big extended family (gee, why does that sound familiar?), where the owners and staff live up there, and you can rent a cabin for a weekend, a week, or probably however long you want. The only catch is, the people that have been there before have first dibs... there are some families that go there every Memorial Day weekend, and have been for 35, 40, 45 years. When the kids grow up, and start their own families, they get cabins of their own.
There are a few openings for random weekends this summer, and this place is so nice and relaxing, it's worth the drive. There's all sorts of activities, and the cabin that our family has been getting for four years is on the river, where there's fishing, white water rafting, swimming when they put up the dam... to sum it up, it's great.