We are living in Utah currently and it kinda scratches some of the same itches. The view of snow covered mountains out my back door ain't half bad. I do miss the sea though. And family. But at least we have wild mountain wilderness starting just a couple miles away from our house. And the weather here in the winter is insane! Sunny and in the forties and fifties pretty regularly. We have been hiking almost every weekend this winter in our shirtsleeves.