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Popular YouTube travel vlogger Peter Santenello has been spending a lot of time in our neck o’ the woods lately, and on Saturday he dropped a third video documenting his local excursions. This time he embarks on one of the most beautiful (albeit bumpy) drives in the country, from Ferndale to the remote Lost Coast by way of the Wildcat.

He visits the Petrolia and Honeydew general stores, and at the latter he interviews an employee who discusses her recovery from fentanyl addiction with help from the faith-based recovery center Mountain of Mercy. 

Santenello also speaks with Whitethorn royalty Tasha McKee and Jim Groeling about the region’s history, including its lumber heyday, the “back to the land” movement and the recent cannabis market crash. (He interviews a longtime grower about the impacts to Garberville in particular.)

Fittingly, Santenello winds up in Shelter Cove, where he briefly discusses the town’s history of shady real estate prospecting before capturing the sun as it sets behind the Pacific.