No, I haven't gone anywhere except Vegas, and that was to work as well.....been a damn good year...!
(snicker)
It wouldn't make the journey to SD no matter how good the tempering was....but I'll be at the PO when it cools down some.Speaking of the cacao business, you never did make it to the post office, did you?
Good to hear your feeling better...!
Wishing you well and speedy recovery. Keep us posted.
Still so tired I can barely see the screen, but I should be good for a little while longer.How you feeling, Rich?....SSDD?.......
I still have 10,000,000 projects on my "to do" list that will never get done if this place continues to pretend it is a tropical rain forest.I see that...and their calling for more rain tomorrow......
The weather certainly hasn't cooperated for those gigs
Grants Pass is a city up against the west side of the Cascades, but in the south end of the state, and is surrounded by mostly Fir trees (some pines). Most of the "rains all the time" area is the northern end of the Willamette Valley (Corvallis to Portland), west side of Cascades, deciduous trees and open fields. The Coast Range Mountains (fir trees), west of the Willamette Valley and all the way over to the beach, are also in the rainy area. So, if you look at a map, the soggy portion of Orygun is 1/4 of the state in the NW corner.
My first 18 years was the northern end of Soggy Valley (Willamette), 20-40 miles west or southwest of Porkland (we moved around a lot). Then the Air Force had me for 6 years all over the globe, then back to the Porkland area for a few years, then a promotion to an experimental division of the company in Redmond, so I lived in Bend and Redmond (snugged up on the east side of the Cascades, dead center N-S, called "high desert"), then I ran around the country for awhile again (Montana, Arizona), then back to Redmond, then to South Dakota just over 15 years ago.
Yeah, very familiar with wet, but I was either a kid with no outside duties or an adult who worked in an office/lab and didn't have to deal with it except to go to/from my car. Outside activities were restricted to the 30 or so dry days per year.So you're basically accustomed to a lil wet weather.....
Which I assume is why you're not there......
Central Oregon was dry most of the year, so I loved that side of the state.
I hear that....my son who lives near Tampa said he had to toss out a couple leather jackets due to mold growing on them in his closet.....now that is some humidity.Yeah, very familiar with wet, but I was either a kid with no outside duties or an adult who worked in an office/lab and didn't have to deal with it except to go to/from my car. Outside activities were restricted to the 30 or so dry days per year.
Yes, the wet is one of my major reasons for getting out of Orygun (and the Kalifornicating Socialists which is why we left the dry side too). It is so nasty to open the closet to put on clean clothes and they are already soggy.
Medford is south of Grants Pass and, while still technically on the west side, is much drier and the surrounding area resembles Steppe. Oaks,. Pines, dry grassland. Very near the northern Kalifornia border. Only a couple hours to Crater Lake and lots of nice powder skiing,
The humidity in Porkland and Tampa are probably very similar, but the heat in Tampa will make the mold grow faster.
Medford has an airport, so you could fly in and rent a car. Or big jet to Klamath Falls and puddle jumper over the mountains to Medford.
I remember one summer in Soggy Valley where we went 100 days without rain, Oregonians seriously thought the world was ending in a drought. But normally, they have rain at least a couple days out of the week all summer and 5-7 days a week the rest of the year,
I-5 goes right through Medford, so you could do I-10 over to LA and I-5 all the way up. I did Tucson to Porkland in a pickup in 24 hours.
When the sun comes out, a lot of people report UFOs.
There is a restaurant east of Phoenix which says on their sign "If the sun is not shining the food is on the house"....When the sun comes out, a lot of people report UFOs.
Seriously, when I was a teenager, the governor had some bumper stickers made up that said, "Last year, 365 people fell off their bicycles... and drowned."
I have driven through 30 of our states, British Columbia, Canada, Sonora, Mexico, England, Scotland, Wales, Italy and Germany. If I had to pick the one place with the most beautiful scenery and diverse topography and geology and opportunities for a zillion recreational opportunities, there is no doubt in my mind that it would be Oregon. But the socialists who run the place have made it so UNinviting, I doubt I will ever see it again.
I would wait for the monsoon days and go there for dinner. Or do they close down on rainy days?There is a restaurant east of Phoenix which says on their sign "If the sun is not shining the food is on the house"....
Hahaha....I don't know....but I do know the monsoon season missed us this year....not even a dust storm.....which is wilder than the lack of rain
Which is every city on the west coast (and probably east coast too) with a population greater than 1,000. Shit! Chicago, St. Louis, Houston.... OK, ALL big cities.
I don't know if she's done anything new recently, but if you ask real nice (
) I'm sure she can find some time (eventually) to resend all the ones she sent before. But I better let her answer that one... hate to over-step.
