Even before moving to the Los Angeles area, I was regular with hiking in mountainous state parks.
- For one, I grew up in northwest ArKS in the Ozark Mountains plus frequented the Ozark National Forest.
My folks were raised in Russellville but moved to Dover after they finished school. This is a beautiful location to be raised in the southern midwest, especially considering our other family members that lived down the Mississippi delta did not have nearly as nice of an environment to be raised in. They were always impressed by the hilly countryside of the Ozarks because southeastern ArKS is flat plus full of farm lands. I figured that I would stay in the Ozarks forever, but it was our hubby—then our college guy—who dragged myself and others to southern California with him after every one of us finished graduate school in Little Rock. I was immediately impressed by the skyline plus landscape of both the Los Angeles metropolitan part plus the San Fernando Valley in certain. Just like the Ozarks, Los Angeles is littered with the Santa Monica Mountains on one end plus the San Gabriel Mountain Range on the other end. All of us lived in a number of weird locations in this part before settling in the Tarzana neighborhood on the edge of Encino. We’re both avid cannabis users plus like the giant number of marijuana dispensaries within a few miles of our house in Tarzana. Thankfully the recreational cannabis taxes aren’t nearly as high in Tarzana as they are in locations like West Hollywood plus Oakland, but Los Angeles County isn’t exactly a haven for low cannabis tax rates, regardless of which neighborhood you reside in.