Quote Originally Posted by emily_in_nc View Post
That sounds just like hiking in the jungle in Belize during the summer. The scenery and birds were absolutely spectacular, but you do have to be able to tolerate basically being soaked to the skin in sweat the entire time, through your underclothes, dripping off your face. It's not like cycling where you can create a breeze in hot weather because you're moving fast. My DH loved it, but I was dying. It was just so very uncomfortable. But we were traveling "off season" when lodging rates were low, so that is what we had to deal with. Not a fan.
Sounds like the Amazon rainforest. I can handle climate changes if they come gradually - like going from a cold winter to a hot, humid summer like we get here. But if it's all at once and involves heat and humidity, I am doomed. Abrupt changes to extreme cold I can handle, heat, not so much. DP and I spent less than a week in the rainforest a few years ago (Ecuador), where our clothing was never dry, there was certainly no a/c, and by day 3 I had completely lost my appetite. I'll take Minnesota over Florida any day.