So if you lived in Baker, Calif., Rhyolite, Nev. or Yuma, Ariz. at the time, you would have had beach-front property.
That’s all well and good, but my ferry-ride to the mainland would take a week instead of an hour and a half...
On the other hand, had I stayed where I was born, I’d be a two hour drive to the sea. I’d miss the Rockies, though.
“Where can you go,
When there’s no San Francisco!
Better get ready to tie up the boat,
In Idaho.”
Old song from the late 1960s.