right now we are pondering ukiah or willits which i guess is not so rural. we are also pondering the coast. we will have to drive to marin county at least every three months and stay a week but would like to be able to make it to marin once a month and stay a couple days and don't want the drive to be more than 3 hours each way which limits how far north we are looking. also won't be moving until fall at the soonest so we have time to make some trips out there and explore a bit.