yeah, i do worry about that after all those sunny days in my youth! I grew up in Ojai (Santa Barbara and Ventura beaches for the most part).

Pouting... Your beaches were prettier than my beaches... But, we did get those interesting looking navy ships to stare at on the horizon.

you know though, SoCal is known for its beaches, but they've nothing on the beaches of northern California which, in turn have nothing on the beaches of Oregon, Washington and BC. They just keep getting prettier the farther north you go. =)

(Map out) Umm... So that's where I went wrong. I got the North part okay, but I'll be darned. I hung a right when I should have hung a left.  That's where my ocean is! It's left! Sigh... Story of my life.

Lol - yeah, I don't like being too far from the water. I lived in NV for a bit and I survived, but I prefer at least driving distance to a vast body of water. Wyoming is great in it's own right though.