Well, I was close enough last summer. I was in Santa Barbara...sill in the southern half, but closer than I am now.
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I'm afraid that if I lived there I would rarely leave Victoria. What a beautiful place and good weather too.
When we lived in Seattle area (up towards Snoqualamie Pass), we would go to BC and camp at Horseshoe Bay, north of Vancouver, and across from Victoria. We also took the kids to Stanley Park and the zoo. It was our tradition on either father's day or mother's day.