redwood living

Deanna and I have been dreaming of a small home on a few acres of land for about as long as we've been together. Until very recently, that meant moving pretty far away from where we are now on the San Francisco Peninsula because prices here were completely unreasonable.

Over the last two or three years, we've been seriously considering buying our first home somewhere up in north Northern California, probably somewhere in Humboldt County in or around Arcata. It really did take going that far north to get the climate, the house, and the land we were after.

The last year has changed things quite a bit and today buying closer to where we live now is not out of the question, so we've been cautiously optimistic that we might just find our home and a perfect bit of land somewhere on the Peninsula.

We've never wanted to buy as an investment, so we're not chasing the bottom of the market -- who knows when (if?!) we'll even see it. We have a set of wants for our house and the land it sits on and we've always said that if we can find it and we can afford it, we're going to get it. Another piece of or thinking is that we'd be first and last time home buyers. We want a home that's about how we live, not about making money.

Well, it looks like things might be coming together for us. If all goes well, we'll be closing on our dream home sometime in the next month.

It's a wonderful log cabin on several acres of redwoods with some open spaces and a pair of nice little creeks creating two of the property boundaries.