CH>  Hi Roy. Good. I did a Gooogle recenlty. One hit was " ARE there any
 CH> cities without subburbs? I think only thoe very old ones.

 RW> Where I grew up, there are no suburbs. City of 28,000. There are many
 RW> more like it in that area.

 I think it's great that way. Even with the 'nearby shopping areas'
for suburbs now , it's not the same because you often have to cross
big highways to get there.

 CH>  Vancouver BC is like the city described where you can just walk out
 CH> your door and a few blocks away there's a coffee shop, a bakery, a
 CH> farmer's market... ah.news stand... and in the other direction , the
 CH> beach. :)

 RW> The Vancouver beach isn't as nice a place to sun bathe as the several
 RW> beaches in So. California.

 heh true but in July it's good! July is their official summer.
 Sometiems it extends into August a bit. The area is terrific for
 hiking and walking. I was so amazed we took a three mile hike and I
 didn't break out in sweat! It was only in the 70's. (This was last
July. We were livingin FW at the time and you know how Texas is in
July. The funny thing about that is when we went up there, we took the
wather wit us for one day. 91 degrees. Warms up into the 80's normally
for a little while there, but dow to the 50's at night. Doesn't stay
hot at night like it does in TX and other places south.
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 RW> I get two weekend days off the first of August. we're gonna check out
 RW> Corpus Chrisi on those two days.

 We had thought about visiting there, but ended up in Florida instead.
:) We did go see San Antionio the year before last. The riverside
/canal area is so nice!

The Alamo looks smaller in real life, we thought..
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 CH>  Ah Texas. You can drive 12 hours in almost any direction from DFW or
 CH> the center and still be in Texas.

 RW> 8 hours from San Antonio to El Paso...the longest stretch of road I've
 RW> ever been on.

 I've been on I-95 from let's see... where you get onto it in NYS to
Titusville, FL ..and we were on rte 10 from where we got on it in LA
to where ever we got off of it in FL (Pensacola I think).
Yup. LONG way! those roats are. LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG LONG way..

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 RW> If I could, I would have brought San Diego's weather with me. But, one

 That would have been nice and I would have brought the ocean  BUt
some say the way the east coast is eroatind , just wait a few
centuries.
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 RW> can't have everything in San Diego as cheaply as one can get it here.
 RW> The cold of the one month winter here is bearable, the heat of summer
 RW> is too, as long as you take a 'time out in the AC' between 4pm and
 RW> 7pm.

Yup. Those blue northers in November are somethin' aren't they? It's
sumemry all day and then about 4 PM... it comes. The Cold. And boy
does it drop fast.

2006 was our first experience with 100 degree weather for more than a
few days on end. 90 degrees at 10 PM. And you know you could feel the
heat radiating off cars in the parking lot. SO it was a treat that the
stores were so cold with a/c. You'd get popsicle cold then step
outside and before you stepped into the parking lot you'd be sweating.
That's somethin'.

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 RW>  RW>> early in the year with reservations being made last October when
 RW> the  RW>> campgrounds closed for the winter.

 CH>  How was that in August of 06 btw.

 RW> Not as bad a it was in 07. Last year there was so much rain, people
 RW> were being flooded out of their campsites along the river.

 Yeah it was mighty wet! That is for sure. In fact I was telling
hubby, you know? It feels like FLorida. (Last spring was very humid...
We were getting practice! :)


I had started a small garden out back under the back eve, outside the
big window at the kitchen. THis is when we discovered we had no rain
gutters up there at the back of the house (two story)... I can still
see the ittle pepper plants in my minds eye.. as the rain came down
off the eves. Should have transplanted them. I was busy dog sitting at
the time and forgot about it.

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 CH> I have a picture of a sign near a dried riverbed that says, "NO
 CH> Swimming". Seriously the lakes in the DFW area went down quite a bit!
 CH> Bad for the tourism trade.

 RW> Last Monday, the powers that be put a ban on watering the lawn, except
 RW> for certain times of day and only on certain days. Those lawns without

 We had that going onin 06 in the FW area. But funny thing was the
CITY watered whenver it wanted to and it is so vexing when they do it
during the day as the SUN broils the water away. They don't realize
this but that is what happens. And it scorces the topsoil. Why they do
it during the day is nuts. I think it was new growth or something..
but stil its ad to water in hot weather during the day. hmm. Don't
plant during drought then I'd say.
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 RW>  RW>> Hmmmm. Did he rent or own?

 CH>  No idea. I bet he rented though. Just a hunch.

 RW> Probably so.

 I figure if he really wasn't keen on it, just wanted to try it out-
 he'd rent. Probally a good idea to do that, then buy outright when
 you're not sure you'll like it. I've seen those big campers .. must
admit they are nice! You can go out and hike/canoe; and rough it.. and
then relax in the comfort of 'home'... nothing wrong with that.

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 CH>  WOW! I like that. If we move to one of satilites of Orlando that is
 CH> how it is there too. Small town. Big yards. Mature landscape.

 RW> I lived in the big city for 38 years. It's nice to have a small town
 RW> atmosphere and the big city and all of it's conveniences twenty miles
 RW> away.

 True. That is how it is where my sister lives in Vancovuer. The
immediate area is like a small town, inside the city. Gosh you can
walk jsut about anywhere for waht you want/need, there.

 RW>  RW>> All that's right across the freeway from here. Unfortunately,
 RW> you  RW>> can't get there from here.

 CH>  A boat? Would you like them in a boat? Sam I am.

 RW> You have to drive there, you can't walk there. If you try to walk
 RW> there, it's a long journey that will take you way out of the area.
 RW> You're
 RW> familiar with Texas 'turn arounds' - I live between two of them.

 Yup.. oh.  IN Orlando there's sidealks almost everwhere along the
mamor roads between subdivisions and shopping ares but some are rather
a long way.

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