So long Illinois!

[pkq]

Good luck with the move and better weather! I envy people with new adventures.

[allabouteva]

Trekhawk,



That's the funniest thing I've read in a long time - even made me laugh out loud (and I never do that if I can help it!)

Brilliant!

Ditto SnappyPix! Too much of a good thing, Eh?

Congratulations Queen, Tucson sounds great, Hopefully not as 'great' as the Alice. I was in the Alice last year in January (right in the thick of summer), yep, know what you mean Trekhawk... It's seriously hot.

[Pax]

Hey Queen a friend sent me this and I thought of you.
(Alice Springs is a place in Australia so all temps are in Celsius but I think you will get the drift)...

That was hysterical!

Now that the plans are made I'm like a little kid waiting for school to be out for summer...I wanna go NOW!!!!

[fixedgeargirl]

Hey Queen a friend sent me this and I thought of you.
(Alice Springs is a place in Australia so all temps are in Celsius but I think you will get the drift).

I laughed out loud ! You just described my first Texas summer to a T! More than 20 days over 100 degrees F . Yeah, Queen, it's a dry heat . But I'd take that over wet and grey (BTDT).

[uk elephant]

I totally sympathise with your wish to get out of Illinois! I managed to get away from central Illinois for good last fall. But for different reasons than you. I hated the hot sticky summers, but most of all I hated the flatness and endless straight rows along incredibly boring corn fields. Now I am finally back in civilization. It is still cold in the winter, but more plesantly warm in the summer. And although I am in the flattest part of England, it is nowhere near as flat as Illinois. And although this is also full of fields, the fields are smaller, with hedgerows, dotted with fluffy sheep and not a corn plant or soybean in sight. wonderful!

[Trekhawk]

That was hysterical!

Now that the plans are made I'm like a little kid waiting for school to be out for summer...I wanna go NOW!!!!

Glad you liked it.
I love Arizona. Lots of great things to see - sending wishes for a easy and safe move and a wonderful new warm life.

[Crankin]

Love that thing about Alice Springs. Exactly how I felt about living in Tempe... yea, endless summer was not my thing. I always thought we should have had our summer vacation in the winter, so the kids could go outside.

Every time I go out to my car after school and the wind is blowing and it's 5 degrees F. out, I stop and think about what it felt like when it was 112 F and i had to open the door of my car.

Tucson is more temperate. Evenings actually get below 100 in the summer and winter nights are well, like winter!

[Lise]

living in Illinois...long cold winters, wet miserable springs, hot and humid summers, followed by about a week of wonderful fall.

Welllll...when you put it that way....sigh.

You've summed it up in 21 words. And yet, I love my home. But fer the love of...all that's holy...ENOUGH with the freaking cold weather! My car announces "Ice Possible" everytime I turn it on. Someday it's gonna say, "Sunshine Possible"!

Congratulations on the new digs! We expect ride and race reports year 'round, you know! L.

[Pax]

Welllll...when you put it that way....sigh.

You've summed it up in 21 words. And yet, I love my home. But fer the love of...all that's holy...ENOUGH with the freaking cold weather! My car announces "Ice Possible" everytime I turn it on. Someday it's gonna say, "Sunshine Possible"!

When I stepped outside yesterday and have to scrape and dig for about an hour to unearth my car I figured it was just Ma Nature flipping me off one. last. time. Sorry you got caught in her wrath too.

Congratulations on the new digs! We expect ride and race reports year 'round, you know! L.

Will do! Although having not seen a curve (or a hill) in recent memory...I have visions of tipping over a lot.

[VenusdeVelo]

Have a brother and family in Phoenix, very jealous Queenie. But you'll love it.

After I return to the US, I end up back in WI where the weather is as temperamental as IL! The only thing I would miss in AZ would be the cross country skiing when it snows....