Gentlemen, start you snowblowers!

[duffy]

Originally Posted by waterman

Expiring. Have it all pre-planned.

Have figured it out. Pickup with a toy hauler travel trailer, motorcycle in back and internet service. Always hunt out a location where the temperatures are around 80 and head for there. Change locations when you are bored.

That's what I'm currently doing..............you'll like it.

[waterman]

Originally Posted by duffy

That's what I'm currently doing..............you'll like it.

I've told Krystal this for several years. She was always saying "But what about the grandkids?" I said to her that they will be grown up by then and we can always visit. This last year she said "When do we start traveling?"

Have any hints?

[Vulcan Bill]

Originally Posted by dshelly

Not me brother, Too fricken hot in the summer. I can always add cloths in the winter.

Being a native of Arizona I have a natural disdain for cold. When in the military I spent a year on an island in the Bearing Sea, two winters in Germany and finally a winter in North Dakota. I couldn't get out of ND fast enough!
Gotta agree tho, the summers here are getting rough to take. Me and the wife are talking about finding some affordable place up north to escape too in in the summer months.

[ponch]

Originally Posted by Vulcan Bill

Being a native of Arizona I have a natural disdain for cold. When in the military I spent a year on an island in the Bearing Sea, two winters in Germany and finally a winter in North Dakota. I couldn't get out of ND fast enough!
Gotta agree tho, the summers here are getting rough to take. Me and the wife are talking about finding some affordable place up north to escape too in in the summer months.

Someplace around Happy Jack or Hannigan Meadows. Even Flagstaff.

[cactusjack]

Originally Posted by ponch

Someplace around Happy Jack or Hannigan Meadows. Even Flagstaff.

Flagstaff is nice but it's hell getting around there. Traffic is nasty, especially during summer when half of the valley is up there.

[ponch]

Originally Posted by cactusjack

Flagstaff is nice but it's hell getting around there. Traffic is nasty, especially during summer when half of the valley is up there.

Nastier than rush hour here or NY? I've only been there a few times. My oldest daughter goes to NAU. A guy I work with has a house near Happy Jack. He says it's at least 25 degrees cooler up there. When it's over 105 here, it's a bit much. Hot is hot.

[cactusjack]

I have never been to NYC, but Flagstaff is a town with narrow streets and small blocks and only one long main drag. On weekends traffic gets pretty heavy and it takes a long time to get through it. A place like Happy Jack is a little too isolated for me. Somewhere around Prescott wouldn't be too bad or up around Heber or Show Low. I can't understand why anyone would live in Bullhead City or Havasu. It's hotter there than it is here.

[ringadingh]

Originally Posted by ponch

You can't ride in the winter though. I can ride every damn day. It almost makes it worth it.

We can go snowmobiling, skiing, icefishing, and a ton of other stuff here, it gives us a nice variety of activities to do. On the really cold days I stay inside and tinker with my guns until the weather improves.
Just mounted a couple scopes lately.

[ponch]

Originally Posted by ringadingh

We can go snowmobiling, skiing, icefishing, and a ton of other stuff here, it gives us a nice variety of activities to do. On the really cold days I stay inside and tinker with my guns until the weather improves.
Just mounted a couple scopes lately.

I lived in Iowa for 9 years. I never got into that stuff. Just not interested in freezing to death outside.

[ponch]

Originally Posted by cactusjack

I have never been to NYC, but Flagstaff is a town with narrow streets and small blocks and only one long main drag. On weekends traffic gets pretty heavy and it takes a long time to get through it. A place like Happy Jack is a little too isolated for me. Somewhere around Prescott wouldn't be too bad or up around Heber or Show Low. I can't understand why anyone would live in Bullhead City or Havasu. It's hotter there than it is here.

I have a cousin in Lake Havasu. I heard it's hot there. I'd rather be on the east side, like Heber or Show Low or Payson. Prescott seemed a little barren out that way, at least where I was. Trees are nice.

[Vulcan Bill]

Yep. Thats our plan too. Flagstaff is to developed now and ever since the mass exodus of Californians to Flag its too expensive. Somewhere from Payson over to Show Low will work. That's another plus for Arizona. You don't have drive clear across the nation for a cooler climate. A 3 hour commute puts you on top of the Colorado plateau.
Lake Havasu? No way! It gets hotter there than in Phoenix and, my gawd, what a barren wilderness. If I owned hell and Lake Havasu I'd live in hell and rent out Havasu!

[Vulcan Bill]

Originally Posted by waterman

Expiring. Have it all pre-planned.

Have figured it out. Pickup with a toy hauler travel trailer, motorcycle in back and internet service. Always hunt out a location where the temperatures are around 80 and head for there. Change locations when you are bored.

I like this plan. I could do this no problem.

[ponch]

Originally Posted by Vulcan Bill

Yep. Thats our plan too. Flagstaff is to developed now and ever since the mass exodus of Californians to Flag its too expensive. Somewhere from Payson over to Show Low will work. That's another plus for Arizona. You don't have drive clear across the nation for a cooler climate. A 3 hour commute puts you on top of the Colorado plateau.
Lake Havasu? No way! It gets hotter there than in Phoenix and, my gawd, what a barren wilderness. If I owned hell and Lake Havasu I'd live in hell and rent out Havasu!

I don't know what too expensive is, but I imagine the 260 corridor would be cheaper. Easier to get to from where I live too.

[cactusjack]

Ever been through Payson on a Sunday afternoon and seen the light at 260 and 87 backed up for 2 miles? Everybody is heading back to the valley after a weekend on the rim. It makes for a "fun" ride back to valley dodging horse trailers and toy haulers for 80 miles.

[ponch]

Originally Posted by cactusjack

Ever been through Payson on a Sunday afternoon and seen the light at 260 and 87 backed up for 2 miles? Everybody is heading back to the valley after a weekend on the rim. It makes for a "fun" ride back to valley dodging horse trailers and toy haulers for 80 miles.

No, I haven't, but if I got a place up there, I don't imagine I'd be rushing back Sunday afternoon. It would be a retirement deal. I am not sure where I'd want to live in retirement, if and when that comes, but I know where I don't want to live. I still have 10-13 years to go.