What's it like where you live?

[Chik a Boom]

"jkc, I heard august is a good time to come?"

Merril, you heard right! Anyone contemplating a move to metro Phoenix really ought to plan on spending at least a week or so here in August. In August, you'll find that it's not uncommon to have days on end with high temps above 110 degrees, with nighttime temps falling into the high 90's. In August, the famously "dry" heat isn't so dry, with humidity levels as much as 20-30%, which may sound pretty tame to some, but is off the "miserable" chart here. You will learn that milk can spoil on your way home from the market, ammo can become dangerous on your drive to the range, oven mitts and welders gloves are useful outside the kitchen or shop, and that there's a window of about ten minutes between tanning and incineration. You'll learn that finding a parking space in the shade is probably worth a walk of several hundred yards across a waffle-iron parking lot, as the lesser of evils. You may be lucky enough to experience one of our "haboob" dust storms, which is the desert version of a "whiteout" but with grit. Or, maybe a "monsoon season" thunderstorm, with traffic-crippling street flooding, collisions, and "microburst" wind gusts that destroy structures you might have thought to be indestructible. Yep, if you're thinking about moving to AZ, please spend August here first.

Exactly. Five years in Phoenix convinced me I preferred all 4 seasons again. Somehow, ninety-nine degrees at 10 pm is just not natural. So fortunately, we were able to move up 5000 feet into the forest and it's very nice to be in the pines.

As someone said earlier, there are gorgeous spots all across our country and I don't have enough lifetimes to dwell in all the ones I would like to. I love seeing the ocean, the farmland, the meadows, the mountains-keep the pictures coming, folks. And P.S., Jkc, if you should head north up the Beeline wave as you go by Rim Country!

 

[Muley Gil]

"A major road is the Jefferson Davis Highway, an appellation that would have been as likely as Hermann Goering Strasse (a real street in Namibia, but named after the famous HG's dad)."

Bite yore tongue, you da-n Yankee! Jeff Davis was a hecka lot better president than what we have now!!!!!!!!!

 

[Old 44 Guy]

Living ???

All my friends here have a good place to live. Depends on what you like. Myself I've lived mostly in in Calif. & Oregon. Born in Albany, CA. 1931 Moved to Richmond.CA in 1939, Moved to Martinez.CA in 1944. Then to Lafayette in 1955. Married in 1960 & bought a place behind Mt. Diablo in Clayton,CA. Sold out in 1967 & moved to the Sierra foothills.West Point ,Ca. Stayed there 14 years while raising my family. Kids were gone & bought a home beyond my means. Lost my ass in 1986. Lost my wife in 1987. Married my wifes sister, Bad move on my part. I divorced her fanny in 2002. Managed a lot of hunting trips in the west between 1954 & last year. Mostly deer but other game as well. Have hunted in Calif, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Utah, Nevada & Colorado. Met & married a grand gal in Oregon in 2004. Lost her to heart attack in 2008. Widowed again but happy to be here on the Oregon Coast {Coos Bay}. I'll be 79 next June & happy to be here. Going crabbing for Dungenus & clams tomorrow with a buddy. He has a good boat & I'm a good crab puller. LOL.Have my spring bear tag already. Later, Dick

 

[jkc]

"And P.S., Jkc, if you should head north up the Beeline wave as you go by Rim Country!"

I'm up ,down, and around the Rim frequently, with business interests from Rye, Star Valley, Heber, Overgaard, Clay Springs , Linden, and beyond.

Say when, and how, to communicate, and I'll buy coffee in Payson or wherever our paths may cross...

 

[Krull]

I dunno,what's in northern WV? the Ohio river is all I can think of,and that's ether a thirty mile drive or a two or three mile walk cross country (which I won't do since my butt would get lost)

However I grew up not far from where Wyatt is,nice place,just that CA has gone nuts the last thirty odd years...

 

[Mod10]

None of those places are the real Virginia. This is the real Virginia--Floyd County, AKA God's Country:

I've been to Floyd, it was......interesting. Beautiful scenery, a Food Lion, beautiful scenery, some houses, and beautiful scenery.

 

[BarbC]

YouTube - Johnny Cash sings "This Land Is Your Land"

 

[Hermann]

"A major road is the Jefferson Davis Highway, an appellation that would have been as likely as Hermann Goering Strasse (a real street in Namibia, but named after the famous HG's dad)."

Bite yore tongue, you da-n Yankee! Jeff Davis was a hecka lot better president than what we have now!!!!!!!!!

LOL, LOL, LOL !!!!

 

[JcMack]

Don't want to depress you all with pix. Just imagine a giant expanse of urban blight.

 

[cowboy117]

Wyatt,tried to send you a message but it said you didn't have a registered name.Go figure.It's in Kirby[old name Kirbyville],called It's A Burl.Here's a link.Enjoy!


The Yard | It's a Burl

 

[cowboy117]

Shiprock:

I've was there in 1987 on my HD- is on Route 666 between Gallup N.M.and Durango Co.They renamed the highway because of the number 666[the Devils road].

 

[gunlovingirl]

I live on the outskirts of Nashville. Headline from today's paper....
Jimmy Buffett's Margaritaville Café to open in Nashville.

 

[ACP230]

Lake Superior isn't far from where I live. It's the most scenic of the Great Lakes IMO.
I haven't been there lately because there's too much snow.

We have fishing for trout, bass, walleyes, and panfish all over the place. Grouse hunting in the fall, deer hunting, bear (if you can get a tag) and skiers and snowmobilers like the place during the months I don't like it as much.

Lots of places to shoot in the spring, summer and fall too.

I lived all over the U.S. and in the South Pacific as a kid. This place got ahold of me when we came back.

 

[DeathGrip]

1,Ft.Lauderdale intercostal.2,A little friend in the Everglades.
I've got some of the best of Fla.within minutes.But I really like the Central/East Coast from the Treasure Coast up to the Space coast.
Some great places and pictures in this thread,Keep 'em coming!!!

D.G.

 

[Chik a Boom]

"And P.S., Jkc, if you should head north up the Beeline wave as you go by Rim Country!"

I'm up ,down, and around the Rim frequently, with business interests from Rye, Star Valley, Heber, Overgaard, Clay Springs , Linden, and beyond.

Say when, and how, to communicate, and I'll buy coffee in Payson or wherever our paths may cross...

You got it! Just give us a heads-up pm maybe, when you're headed this way and we'll see what we can plot. Perhaps we can scare up some other AZ'ers for a gathering one day. Thanks!

 

[Dan Cash]

Badlands

I have to put forth my own neck of the woods; Western North Dakota on the edge of the Badlands. Cattle still get moved by trail drive though gathering is more frequently done with motorcycle and 4 wheeler. A saloon is a saloon and people are real. Not perfect but real. For a better tour, go to the Theodor Roosevelt National Park web site - we are 5 miles west of it. The pictures are what we see from our windows each morning

 

[Bullseye 2620]

I've been to Floyd, it was......interesting. Beautiful scenery, a Food Lion, beautiful scenery, some houses, and beautiful scenery.

Yep, we got all that, and more:

FRONT PORCH BLUEGRASS MUSIC

OUT BACK OLD-TIMEY MUSIC

FLATFOOTIN'

AND THE MOST PEACEABLE PLACE A MAN COULD WISH FOR


Bullseye

 

[enfield]

Cows, trees, hay bales, tractors, more cows . . .

Oh, and I can see the Smokies from the top of the ridge.

 

[lyman]

Virginia looks exactly the same to me, whether it be Richmond, Norfolk, Charlottesville, Fredericksburg, etc.

I used to live in Northern Virginia, which I'm thankful I no longer do. The place is a giant strip mall, where a five mile drive takes 30 minutes, and an acre of land costs $500,000.

hello neighbor,

just a few miles south of you,

born and raised in Richmond,

great town actually, that has no idea what to do with all the history in and around it,

2hrs roughly from DC, the beach, the mountians, and NC, (not that there is a reason to go there,,,)

lots of history,

 

[Muley Gil]

"OUT BACK OLD-TIMEY MUSIC"

Hard to beat listening to the Whitetop Mountain Band from Grayson County, Virginia, with Emily Spencer on the banjer.