"If this place ever gives us the option of going to California, you should definitely go," he said. "Because odds are, it won't be the part of California you went to."
And even if it somehow was? Going as a tourist was always different from going as a resident. It was one of the reasons he'd enjoyed getting back to New York the couple of times he'd been able to.
He just wished he'd been able to do it with his family. Regrets weren't going to do anything for him, though.