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Weeeell, technically I’m a Floridian. But I like that thing you Marylanders call seasons, oh and mountains. I was back in FL for a bit (a much longer bit than I thought I’d be there for) and I couldn’t wait to leave the 7-8 month long sauna.
~Hoofer
Yes, I love all of the different areas and climates within MD…. Eastern Shore w/beaches, sun and sand; the wooded and rural areas in Southern MD and in the middle of the state – lots of farm land left north of Baltimore, then as you mentioned – mountains (Midwesterners would call our mountains ‘foothills’ though) in Western MD. That’s where Hubby and I go most every Spring… hiking, trout fishing and critter watching in Garrett Co. during the first week or so in May. VAC is coming up! 😀
If you want a taste of Florida – go to the Eastern Shore as the Summer gets started. Plenty of humidity, mosquitoes, and tourists at the beaches. You’ll feel right at home! 😉
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*** Come visit me on deviantArt at http://ela-hara.deviantart.comOk, that had me chuckle. I have been to the eastern shore, my Uncle kept his boat out there. The tobacco farms were so awesome (I also love all the old buildings/farms up here, everything rots so bad in FL, the historical stuff is minimal compared to here) but I must say, the Chesapeak is nothing like the Gulf of Mexico, NOTHING. Even with all that oil mishap, the shorelines were not destroyed. I’m sure the fishery aspect of the Gulf is (which was #3 in the world at the time), but all the shorelines and rivers where I lived were thank gawds, just fine. Unless of course you’re talking about a different area on the eastern shore than the Chesapeak. I’ve not heard of any good Atlantic beach areas on the MD side. I did go check out Ocean City, NJ side. Oh yeah, again, no comparison to FL.
I’m right next to the Potomac and Monocacy. What you referred to as the mid, southern side of MD with all that land that is still undeveloped. They’re awesome as rivers go, but … I have no desire to jump in and go for a swim. One, unlike our meandering rivers, the Potomac is a formidable river and two, it’s kinda nasty when compared to the FL ones.
The western side is definitely nice. I’ve a friend that is over in the Hagerstown area and I go to the Libertytown area to pick up my horse groceries. Although there’s plenty of groceries grown in the local area, the quality definitely depends on whom you’re getting it from here. I like making the drive because the other fella is definitely consistent with his hay fields. Well that and the drive is nothing for a Floridian. The states so big, everything is practically a long drive mileage wise. Here, it’s not about the mileage, it’s about all that damned traffic.
Gawds do I miss the roadways in FL. You can get somewhere quite far in no time at all down there, but here, well, you know!
I’m dying to go to a Ren Fest again, I haven’t been to one since I was last here, which we won’t go into how long ago that actually was, but I’ve got no one really to go with any more. My Ren Fest buddy is swamped with her dog agility activities. Maybe I can convince her ….
I have to share, I know the lower lying Blue Ridge range isn’t massive, (I’ve skied in Colorado.) So yeah, they are the foothills of that range for sure, but for a Floridian, they’re mountains. :-> I had to take some stuff for some people over into Round Hill, VA yesterday and I tell ya, every time I get into the foothills, I’m just wowed by the ability to look over there, across the valleys, and see all the various hill tops. I have a nice view of Sugarloaf, which I always teasingly call Sugarlump, from the front porch. I missed that so much. When I got back, I said to my friend, “Ahhhh, eye candy again, yay!”
So back to the Round Hill trip yesterday, I asked the old timer who was chatting me up if the actual hill top was called Round Hill and he said nawp, it’s called that because back in the day, the footpath (now a roadway) went a’Round’ the ‘Hill’. I just had to laugh. Neat fella, I had to use his driveway to turn my trailer around in and I asked if he would eyeball for me, because I didn’t want to whack his trees branches that were lining the driveway, his response, ‘No problem, that would save me from having to get up there and trim them.” Lol, my kinda peoples.
Well, it was a horse trailer I was using to take that stuff to the person and when I got done using his driveway to turn it around, he asked if I had horses. Oh yeah. He said well ya know, you’re trailers fixing to be empty, I got something that we could toss on there if you want.
I thought to myself, oh dear, someone’s got an elderly pasture puff and wants to rehome it. Well, he was a nice enough gentleman and comical, that and I’m always game to check out some horse flesh, so I said sure and jumped in his mule with him (he was picking up fallen branches when I showed up) and away we went to his cow pasture.
Well was I wrong about my first thought.
I have been thinking about another two year old that I could train up, like I did with my two. They’re not exactly elderly, but just like me, they are getting up there. OMGawd, I think I’m getting another critter. She’s just at two, very friendly, been owned by the current woman since she was 8 months old. She’s obviously been worked with, no trouble at all picking up her foot, I asked very gently for it and once she realized what I was asking, she picked it right up for me. She’s already been sacked out, lounged, etc. However, the prior people this woman got her from has to approve the place and the fencing here isn’t exactly in pristine condition and although it’s fine for my girls, they might want it perfect and that it definitely is not.
I’m excited and at the same time, I’m asking myself, are you so sure you’re ready for a new critter? Heh. I figure it this way, I’ll let their approval decision be the, ‘if it was meant to be, it will be’ factor in this.
Life is so funny like that, I’m glad I like to just ‘ride it out’ and remain open minded to what comes my way. It’s made for some amazing circumstances.
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Weeeell, technically I’m a Floridian. But I like that thing you Marylanders call seasons, oh and mountains. I was back in FL for a bit (a much longer bit than I thought I’d be there for) and I couldn’t wait to leave the 7-8 month long sauna.
While most hated it, I actually enjoyed freezing my derrier off this year. This was a nice doozy of a winter. And that’s the thing about winters here, you get all kinds of different types.
Now don’t get me wrong, parts of Florida are pretty amazing and I miss that, but it’s that eight months of high humidity. It sucks feeling that sticky for that long.
I wonder if there are any other Windstone fans on here that are close to us. Not to long after I joined the forums here, I met up with a member who was near where I used to go pick up my load of horse groceries. She kewl people. :->
~Hoofer
Me – Southern Maryland, and I know of a couple of other Maryland Forum members. Then there is the Virginia gang …
Not too many in the MA gang… but I have to say I am not a fan of the New England weather… seasons are one thing but I feel like we only have winter and summer now. Fal and Spring last like.. a weekend.
It was in the upper 60s out the other day… it was beautiful! Calm spring breezes with the subtle scent of fresh cut grass and a perhaps a bbq firing up down the block… The kind of day when you reflect on all the woes in your life, lift your head and close your eyes to shied them from the beaming sunlight, breathe in deep, and realize… “it’s not so bad. I think everything is going to be okay”
Yea…Then.. the next day… it snowed again. *bangs head against desk*
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Dreamscape, Orion, Poison Dart, Fireberry, Spangler + Tigerberry DragonsThe same thing happened here in Calgary. The snow from last week has melted though as it was nice yesterday and today. I just wish we had more fall and spring as those are my favourite seasons.
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No worries all, it happened here too. We reached the high 60’s’, possibly even the low 70’s, bright and shiny spring weather, I even broke a sweat while outside working and wouldn’t you know, two days later, we didn’t get snow, but we did drop down for a possible freeze and had to cover the plants we got in.
Yay for just going with the flow. I wasn’t ready to sweat just yet! But I knew, this too shall pass, and wouldn’t you know. Brrrrr, it got cold again. This past Sat and Sun were GORGEOUS here. Yay for spring! They’re already sweating bullets in FL, plus all that rain/thunderstorm action they’re getting in certain parts …..
Though I do miss those amazing thunderstorms. Depending on when they happened of course, it usually always meant it would cool off ‘some.’ So I always associated good stuff with thunderstorms. :-> We get a few here, but not like down there, oh no. And I could do without that Derachado crap. It was awe inspiring, but I’d rather set up/deal with a hurricane then a tornado style winds any day. :->
~Hoofer
The same thing happened here in Calgary. The snow from last week has melted though as it was nice yesterday and today. I just wish we had more fall and spring as those are my favourite seasons.
That’s what it was like about a month ago here in the interior of British Columbia, but there is hope, trust me – you won’t have that horrid spring on/spring off weather for too much longer. It’s finally full on spring here, so it should be that for Calgary pretty quick and other parts of Alberta. 🙂
This is so neat hearing about other parts of the continent and what they’re like. 😀 The furthest I’ve ever been from home is Saskatchewan and I’ve never left Canada. If I can save up enough I am going to visit my buddy in Texas, though I’m not sure what all there really is to do there. I’m a hiker so I think the main draw will just be my best friend, not the outdoorsy stuff I love as I’m not sure how much Texas has in terms of walking trails (my perception is that it is kind of like big patches of rural Alberta where there’s nothing to do and cool stuff in between.) I know it has some nifty historical stuff like the Alamo though and really pretty blue flowers!
The weather here is usually pretty mild in winter, going no lower than about minus thirty degrees Celsius but it can get up to forty sometimes (rarely thank goodness, usually more like thirty-five) in summer because the valley where I live, the Okanagan, is a semi-desert. Down closer to the border in Osoyoos there’s even scorpions and there are cactuses and rattlesnakes too. We have the most northerly species of constrictor snake, the rubber boa, which is endangered.
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That’s EXACTLY what I was thinking! You know, heat rises kinda thing, they blow flames. It’s a physics thing, not a gravity vs weight/mass thing.
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Yay for them. I have them now. I had Allstate for YEARS, then when I moved back to MD, they DOUBLED my rates. I was like, WTHeck? I’m still the same driver with the same EXCELLENT record. FL is known for bad drivers and large amounts of uninsured motorists and they go and DOUBLE my rates? In a state where there is no way they let you get away with no insurance.
I was like, hello other insurance companies. Geico beat them all! Then when I read through the policy and really asked the important questions, I discovered that I was barely covered by their policy write up. I mean, the other persons were, but if I goofed and I got hurt, say no one else was involved, I was SCREWED for coverage.
I was like, “What?! Dude, do you know how absurd that is? I’m the one with the excellent driving record. I’m the one working my butt off every day paying super attention, working super hard at avoiding all the dummies on the road, staring super hard with my laser beam eyes at all the dummies texting or talking on their handhelds AS THEY DRIVE. I’m the one paying you (the company) and if I happen to finally screw up cuz a deer ran out in front of me and I slammed my head into the dashboard as I crashed into a tree, I’m only covered for 10k? Dude! How lame is that?! That wouldn’t cover one night in an emergency situation. Maybe in a podunk Hickville town, but not a hospital stay around here. Does that make any sense to you buddy? I’m the one paying you to cover ME, I’m working my arse off to not have an accident with ANYONE else and I’m not actually covered unless some idiot get’s the best of me and THEIR company pays for me, at whatever limit THEY’RE paying for? Dude, does that make any sense at all to you?!” The agent was in total agreement. I then asked, how much to increase this cheezy 10k for me coverage.
So yeah, I put an additional extra buffer on myself, increasing my per accident $ amount, cuz you know, I am special and I do deserve more than that for coverage, if I finally goof up after all these years and wouldn’t you know, the annual rate STILL is 1/3 of Allstates.
Go Geico. Heh
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I wonder if all those ” Hokays” are legally binding.
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Yes, but only if there are a minimum of three Poads and one Unicorn who witnessed said Hokay(s). It’s in the fine print that apparently is so tiny, only Poads can see it. That and they told me. :->
How many Poads and Unicorns are sitting around you at the moment Melody?
There is an out clause, but I’m not willing to release the details as of yet.
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HA! Only one adult poad, a Breyer horse, a Kirin and a tadpoad, (who isn’t old enough to vote) were witnesses. My loophole.
I’ve been to Kelowona and Osoyoos a few times camping in the summer! They can get super hot in the summer but it’s really nice there with the lakes to swim in. I will probably go again this summer for a visit.
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Yes, but only if there are a minimum of three Poads and one Unicorn who witnessed said Hokay(s). It’s in the fine print that apparently is so tiny, only Poads can see it. That and they told me. :->
How many Poads and Unicorns are sitting around you at the moment Melody?
There is an out clause, but I’m not willing to release the details as of yet.
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HA! Only one adult poad, a Breyer horse, a Kirin and a tadpoad, (who isn’t old enough to vote) were witnesses. My loophole.
Shooooot, that’s not even a loophole/out clause.
And here I thought I covered all the angles.
The Breyer should be excluded, since it’s not a Unicorn (I’m assuming here.) However, I should have specified, but I did not, that all witnesses had to be Windstones, but that could have worked in my favor!
I should have remembered that old picture of your desk area with that Breyer. If I recall correctly, isn’t that the ‘parked’ Morgan Breyer mold? If it is, for you to unpack that fella after the move from CA, there has to be a story behind that guy/gal, have a moment to share it?
Back to the witnesses!
Ok, the Kirin qualifies, because I was neglectful to specify that they had to be an EQUINE Unicorn and I did not, but that works in my favor!
But you’re right, a tadpoad of minor age does not a witness make.
One adult Poad and one Kirin Unicorn are not enough, you’re in the clear. There were not enough witnesses for said “Hokays” to be legitimately binding. ;->
Thanks for playing along.
The same thing happened here in Calgary. The snow from last week has melted though as it was nice yesterday and today. I just wish we had more fall and spring as those are my favourite seasons.
That’s what it was like about a month ago here in the interior of British Columbia, but there is hope, trust me – you won’t have that horrid spring on/spring off weather for too much longer. It’s finally full on spring here, so it should be that for Calgary pretty quick and other parts of Alberta. 🙂
This is so neat hearing about other parts of the continent and what they’re like. 😀 The furthest I’ve ever been from home is Saskatchewan and I’ve never left Canada. If I can save up enough I am going to visit my buddy in Texas, though I’m not sure what all there really is to do there. I’m a hiker so I think the main draw will just be my best friend, not the outdoorsy stuff I love as I’m not sure how much Texas has in terms of walking trails (my perception is that it is kind of like big patches of rural Alberta where there’s nothing to do and cool stuff in between.) I know it has some nifty historical stuff like the Alamo though and really pretty blue flowers!
The weather here is usually pretty mild in winter, going no lower than about minus thirty degrees Celsius but it can get up to forty sometimes (rarely thank goodness, usually more like thirty-five) in summer because the valley where I live, the Okanagan, is a semi-desert. Down closer to the border in Osoyoos there’s even scorpions and there are cactuses and rattlesnakes too. We have the most northerly species of constrictor snake, the rubber boa, which is endangered.
Oh! Those that live in Canada should appreciate this. As mentioned, we had an unusually cold winter here in Maryland. Week after week after week, we kept getting one type of snow or just plain ole cold weather. We had a two week arctic blast of solid freezing temperatures, at one point the wind chill was down in the negatives. I was neglectful and figured that I did not need to plug in my deicer on the water trough (your typical 100 gallon poly tank), because winters here aren’t that bad and although one of my mantras is ‘never say never’, blah.
When that two week period hit us, my 100 gallon trough became a solid block of ice within 3 days. That NEVER happened here. Up til that point, I could easily pull the ice off the top and my horses are not woosies, they’ll drink cold water, even though they came from FL. That and I had the plug in buckets for them in the barn. They also have a natural pond to drink from, but it’s shallow and we know what happened to that. :->
So anyway, that’s an example of how cold it got here this winter and yes, it was darn near a two week period it was super, duper cold for this region. Well, since I deal with the public, day in and day out I heard folks just complaining about how cold it is, yada, yada, yawn, shut up! I’m usually a patient person, but when it comes down to it, you just get tired of people and their complaining. My thoughts, ‘this to shall pass’, eventually it’ll warm up again and yes, I would say things in response, after weeks of hearing it mind you, “Ok, I know you don’t realize it, but, you’re complaining about this cold weather to a FLORIDIAN and I’m doing just fine here thank you very much, dig out your big warm coat, put on a few extra layers and DEAL WITH IT!” And I would usually follow it up with, “It’s not like we’re living in Alaska or Canada ya know.”
Now I’ll admit, that response from a skinny runt from Florida, who’s ‘doing just fine in this cold weather’, did have some of them reevaluating their moaning, to an extent. BUT, when I would point out, ‘try going through an Alaskan, Mid-Northwest U.S.A OR ‘what them Canadians are going through right now’ and then moan to me about two weeks of some cold temperatures’, now that usually had them step mentally back and shut the heck up.
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You all KNOW what a real winter is.
As for your Texas visit, that’s a HUGE state. It all depends on where you are as to what you’re going to do/see. You can easily Mapquest or Google earth the surrounding region and you’ll be able to see the terrain in the area, including neat places to make a point of visiting. There are plenty of trails, but of course, not what you’re used to and depending on where you are in Texas, quite different from one coast to the next, including the north of Texas versus the south region of Texas.
I will say this, depending on the time of year you’re going to go down there, no matter where you are in Texas, you’re definitely going to experience a different kind of hot. The thing with that far south is how much closer they are to the equator than you are up there in that northern hemisphere. You don’t really think about it until you are exposed to it.
When that sun goes down, it does not really cool off, not like you all are used to, so be prepared.
First hand experience.
I kept thinking to myself that something up in Maryland was different than Florida, but never really put it together until I went back down to FL for a full change of seasons (if you want to call them that) and then it hit me. No, it wasn’t something as obvious as the weather, temperature or terrain differences. It was something that was very subtle and like a niggle in the back of your mind, I knew something was different, not quite right, but I just couldn’t figure out what exactly it was that was niggling at me.
Turns out, it was the amount of daylight.
Because the earth tilted back towards the sun during summer, that meant that the southern part of that northern hemisphere (in this case Florida) was that much closer to the sun, since the equator isn’t that much further away. But being 1k miles north of that equator in Maryland, I realized that it was the amount of daylight in a given day is what had me feeling something wasn’t right.
It’s stuff like that, that you don’t really think about, until either someone explains it to you or you experience it yourself, that really is wild.
I had to chuckle and yeah, I called myself dense. But really, loosing daylight isn’t as obvious as you might think. Especially since each day tends to blend into itself. But the overall amount of daylight in any given day? Whoda thunk it?
How about a little experiment, since us forum members are so widely spread out. How about you all up there in Canada take note when that sun reaches below the horizon, mountain range included, of the time it was when you could no longer see the sun beyond the land mass and then take note of the last of the dusk light, when it’s actually considered dark. You’d be surprised the difference between your amount of daylight in the northern, northern hemisphere vs the amount of daylight in the southern, northern hemisphere.
Personally, I’m very curious as to how much of a difference there really is. Maybe it turns out it’s only 15 minutes per every 1k in mileage.
Anyone game?
~Hoofer
Well, I’m a native (South) Floridian whose family moved to Maine when I was in high school, horses included. They all loved the northern climate and adjusted fine, I think it saved the life of one mare who used to get terrible disfiguring summer sores (pre- ivermectin days, all we had was silver nitrate). It was worse for me- I think I adjusted physically okay, but mentally not so much. I always loved the summer and the heat, the summers up there were like winters back home. Changing seasons just felt WRONG, all the constant flux! Yes, it was all beautiful no green here can equal Maine in May and June, but it didn’t feel like how the world is supposed to work. I’d enjoy it more as a tourist. And the dry in the winter, how do you cope?!? My nose was nothing but sores! Give me the humidity please!
The ‘wrongest’ part of it was what you say- I was very aware of daylight length being all out of whack. It was either light way too late/WAYY too early in the summer, or practically no light at all in the winter. I felt like I was in a Jack London story. I couldn’t adapt to the wild daylight swings at all. They should stay pretty much the same all year in my world. (Plus it made it really hard in the winter to get all the stalls cleaned/ water buckets broken out/ feed out and pasture shifts made in the winter after school)
I’m in central FLA now and wish I could go home south. Too cold here in the winter. My poor plants suffered this year. Yes, Maine has Florida all beat to hades on the beauty and people knowing how to mind their own beeswax, but my blood is just too thin.Oh yeah, Maine vs Maryland vs Florida. The lack of daylight had to be way more obvious for you.
As mentioned, mine was a minor niggle, yours had to feel like Thors hammer to the shin.
They don’t call FL the sunshine state for nothing.
I was midstate west coast. I used to jaunt to Ocala for horse groceries. There’s an awesome place a few jigs north of all the horse stores and the Ocala Breeders Association. It’s right at the railroad track and has been there forever. And if you’re near there, and still have yard trimmers, it’s worth checking out.
Because everything is railroaded in from the Midwest, their hay may very well be the best you’ll find around and since it is railroaded in and they sell it at a per pound pricing, it was very worthwhile for me to make the 35 minute trip for my loads.
I do miss the Withlacoochee National Forest. It was practically in my back yard. All that shade made for awesome trail riding. Don’t get me wrong, I have a lot of options here, but the ability to ride off your property and into a forest that you could spend days in AND rarely see a human. I saw my first and only FL bobcat in that forest. Growing up, I didn’t exactly have a full forest to ride in, but I did have a lot of land available. It was a designated flood plane and because it could flood during the 7-11 year cycles, the adjoining land masses were huge with swimmable lakes spread throughout it.
Ok, here has lots of hills, creek crossings and eye candy (aka range tops) and I’m not sticky feeling for 7-8 months out of the year, but there are, without a doubt, a lot more people around. As for that busy body thing down there, that all depends on where you live.
The dry here isn’t as horrible as you indicated it had to be in Maine. We even use a wood stove during the winter. I think I helped that situation by preferring the radiator style, electric heater. That and when I do start getting that dry skin thing, my trick is Olive Oil every day til it rights itself, twice a day if I was negligent. Some might not like the smell, but I’m Italian descent, I joke that my bloodstream requires two things to function properly, Olive Oil and Garlic.
The oil absorbs a whole lot faster than you’d think and the smell wears off, eventually. A coworker asked if I had on a beachy, coconut style lotion a day I used it in the morning. Heh
~Hoofer
Well, come high summer time the light fails at around 8 pm here. Right now I think it’s failing at about 6 pm. I love it in summer time when the light lasts longer, my favourite thing to do then is sit around the campfire and talk, then watch the meteors fall. One year I stayed up really late and I got to see the northern lights! That was pretty special, all this weird green colour swirling across the heavens. I’d like to go farther north someday and see the aurora even better.
Oh gosh, I really can’t imagine how hot it is in Texas (my friend lives in Caldwell which is about an hour southish of Dallas I think – kind of smack dab in the middle of the state) but every time we’ve had southerners up here, like my brother’s ex, they’ve been like “Ack! Cold!” (Though Albertans think it’s hot here haha.) My Texan friend is supposed to visit me someday and when she does I plan on having lots of coats and blankets handy just in case she needs them haha. (But she’s also really cold intolerant.) She wants me to come visit her in the summer, but I suffer in plus thirty-five Celsius summer weather here (my blood must be too thick!) Seriously – hot weather is like murder to me. Maybe I’ll pull a snowbird (what we call Canadians who go south for the winter) when I visit her instead of going in the summer time haha! The idea of it not getting colder at night… that’s shudder provoking to me. I guess I’ll just have to make sure that I have my sandals and warm weather stuff. I hear there’s lots of poisonous bugs and horrid plants in the Texas brush… so maybe I should invest in some nice airy hiking boots with good ventilation. My buddy told me a horror story about an outhouse that was just absolutely infested with daddy longlegs! I’m not afraid of those but she also says there’s lots of cottonmouths where she lives. I don’t mind snakes either, I actually like them quite a lot, they’re even probably my favourite reptile (especially king snakes! Pretty!) but I think maybe close toed shoes are the right idea. It’s probably unlikely that I would see a cottonmouth though I’m guessing since most wildlife avoid people.
I’ve never actually looked at Mapquest, but I have checked out Roadtrippers and I used Google Earth to plan a potential Yukon/Alaska trip that I also want to take (with my heat intolerance going further north permanently might be a good idea haha. It’s too hot for me here in summer, I always love escaping to the Rocky Mountains where it’s colder and I’d happily live there too. I have frostbite in my fingers from being a paper carrier though, so right where I am is the best place for me come winter. Yeoch!) It never occurred to me somehow to use Roadtrippers or any of those others to research interesting things for my future Texas trip! I really hope that I can take this trip someday – it would just be so novel for me to step off a plane and find myself somewhere completely different from what I am used to. I warned my buddy that I’m probably going to be ogling everything in sight, even super normal boring things and being incredibly touristy haha. She’s promised that we’ll find me some good donuts – all the donuts suck here! The ones at Tim Hortons always taste stale to me, like they’ve been sitting for a day. (Also I’m probably going to be like “WOW!” at all the stuff in the grocery stores, since I have heard everything’s a lot cheaper in the states. I can’t wait for that. Probably kinda weird that I’m so excited to go shopping in ordinary supermarkets.)
Oh – one question; is it really humid in Texas? Does anyone know? Humidity is one thing that I’ve really never experienced.
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