My boyfriend and I are planning on moving to CA from CT soon. We are interested in a small town in northern CA, near the redwoods and the coast. Where would you recommend?

My friend who is travelling with me has booked us an internal flight which will mean we only spend about 2 days in San Francisco and the rest of the time in LA. I’ve heard from friends that there’s not much to see in LA if you’re not into shopping and sitting on the beach. I’m considering asking him to try and cancel the internal flight and maybe we could hire a car and drive between the two cities – i heard the coast route is really nice. I’m into museums and history and would love to see the giant redwoods and stuff…we have a friend in LA to stay with but nothing else booked…please help – I’m really worried that we’ll spend a load of money to get over there and waste the little time we have!

I plan on seeing the redwoods, Lake Tahoe…
What else would you recommend?
Are there any shows being taped I could attend?
Please give me some ideas!

San Francisco
Redwoods
Yosemite
Tahoe
Monterey
Napa
Disneyland
Deathvalley
Santa Barbara
Hermosa Beach
San Diego

Etc.

What do you think visitors should REALLY not miss?

Or the name of a tree in the language? Preferably "redwood tree" or "douglas fir" if there are any specifically?

There were many companies that could have created who knows how may jobs from the foresting of the area but we are no longer allowed to forrest in the national parks. Should we allow job creators to once again create jobs in the area and forrest the land as it should be?

I really want to volunteer at an animal shelter, but many of them say that you have to be at least 16 to 18 years old. Anything type of volunteer work would be fine though. Thx

I hired some workers to come and replace some dry rot on the outside of my house. im not sure what kind of wood they used. either douglas-fir or redwood. how can i tell which wood they used? and if they used douglas-fir, is it appropriate for use on the outside of the house? i have heard that they are not good for outdoors. thank for the help
when you replace wood on the outside of the house, for example wooden beams. what kinds of wood are good and which are bad?

I have swingset made of redwood, cedar, and hawthorne lumber. I sanded it down then applied 6 coats of UV Flood semi-transparent stain (water based). Should I apply varnish, lacquer, or polyurethane to further protect it?

is it a redwood tree?
a sperm whale?
or what?