Beautiful Weekend for Drive in Nor Cal

There's always a critic!

Sounds like a great way to spend the weekend, Bob! Thanks for sharing those pics.  @IndianBob

Great stuff @IndianBob  Think a number of car enthusiasts in NorCal were itching to get out this weekend, due to all the rain we've been having.  I drove my speedster Friday, Saturday and Sunday

We might have to put up with earthquakes, high taxes, expensive real estate and traffic here on the left coast but, man, do we have the weather.

Terry Nuckels posted:

We might have to put up with earthquakes, high taxes, expensive real estate and traffic here on the left coast but, man, do we have the weather.

Sold. I’ll take it. 

Stan Galat posted:

Terry Nuckels posted:

We might have to put up with earthquakes, high taxes, expensive real estate and traffic here on the left coast but, man, do we have the weather.

Sold. I’ll take it. 

You’re more gracious than I Stan.  This comment has me wanting to form a Midwest posse :-)

I was thinking @Terry Nuckels was doing us all a favor by limiting his list to just (4) drawbacks to living in California.  

Kevin - Bay Area posted:

I was thinking @Terry Nuckels was doing us all a favor by limiting his list to just (4) drawbacks to living in California.  

You live in the Bay Area, Kevin. In your case, yes— 4 is generous. However, there’s a whole lotta Kalifornia just up the road that isn’t San Francisco. Give up the ocean, and there’s a lot to love in the Golden State. 

BTW: I’ll put your taxes up against ours any day of the week. 

CA. is great, except for taxes, earthquakes and fires..love it here in the gold country..just got back from 4 days on the N. coast below Mendocino. Had place 75' from the ocean ,waves crashing in,Big tub with big window overlooking rocks, waves, super plush everything, 4 plex..,,very $$$ but worth it..any U Ca guys,its the Heritage House in Little River...momma will like it..:}

My wife and I have lived in most parts of the country, from Hawaii to Florida, SoCal to Philadelphia and many spots in between. 14 corporate relocations and a couple of moves on our own.

We have found things to love in every place we have resided, and also decided that there are some things that would prevent us from considering living in a place.

Number one is the potential for severe snow and ice. Second is being remote from the ocean. Most anything else we would adjust to.

Everybody has their limits, and they are all valid. I just don't want to ever be looking out my car window from the bottom of a snow filled ditch ever again.

@Panhandle Bob  Whatever you do , you don't want to even pass through the mountains here in West Virginia in the winter. This is where the old adage originated :  " Snow Ass Deep To A Tall Indian "

I love my family. I used to say, “somebody has to be the first to leave”’, but only one of us did, and they went where the rest of us don’t want to go.

Snow/cold it is. At least for now. 

Well, we did the “leave the rest of the family for someplace warm” thing, and then when the grandkids came and their parents wanted to stay in the snow belt, we found the grandkid magnet too strong to resist.  So we tolerate it here to be a part of their lives, too.  It feels like home.  It’s always been cold and snowy in the winter here, so “Meh”.  

We take a cruise to shorten the winter and use February/March to plan the summer gardens, order seeds and stuff, get the bike and speedster ready for the next season and visit a few friends.  We do volunteer things and stay active that way, and the cultural opportunities around here are second to none, so here we are.  

Winter still sucks, but it lets me really surprise my smaller grandsons when I show up at the local bunny ski slope and ski with them.  “I didn’t know you could ski, Grampa!” Is a neat thing to hear.

Alan Merklin posted:

@Panhandle Bob  Whatever you do , you don't want to even pass through the mountains here in West Virginia in the winter. This is where the old adage originated :  " Snow Ass Deep To A Tall Indian "

Did it! drove from D.C. to Chicago in a BMW 325i convertible in a February storm in the late 90's. Seemed like it took about a year and a half.

Won't do it again.

Drove through the dead of night from down Tenn way up through all of WV to Pittsburgh in 1967, to be precise.  Think it was the first snow of the year, October it was, heading into Nov.  I should have died that night due to sleep deprivation and WV roads with ice and snow, where there would not be ten contiguous feet of straight highway anywhere.  In the old A coupe. w/ no heat. Like I said, shoulda died that night blinking in and out of my frozen stupor.  Just was not my time I guess. Arrived Pittsburgh and slept for about a day . . .

The influx of snowbirds into the Emerald Coast area each year is pretty phenomenal. We have literally thousands of folks who spend a few weeks to a few months here. However, this is our coldest part of the year, with 50-70 degree days and nights that sometimes produce frost.

Most of these folks are from the midwest and Canada and a significant number of them have been coming here for decades.

Living here, and being spoiled by the other three seasons of the year, I need to go further south  in the winter and become "EL SNOWBIRD"