The DrsC are readying to undertake one of our thrice-annual migrations, this time from our spring home to our summer place in the high country, the Rockies. The summer home is our version of what the British in colonial India called "Hill Stations," places to which they'd send "Mum and the kiddies" to escape the summer heat. As retirees we can both go.
Our spring and fall place gets very hot in summer. It gets perhaps 30 days of 100 degree heat in a typical year, that's Fahrenheit, of course. The hottest temperature I've seen here was 118 degrees although that is uncommon, perhaps a once in 20 years occurrence. Spending the summer here means spending several hundred dollars on electricity every month for air conditioning.
Our summer place in the mountains is at an elevation of about 6000 feet, or 2000 meters; we need no air conditioning. Summers are warm and dry there - essentially perfect. Winters are both long and hard, we are told by year-round residents.
We have no personal experience of those winters, we're snowbirds, aka "summer people." We normally see their last snowfall of spring and the first snowfall of autumn at our mountain place, typically neither is serious.
The other DrC believes traffic density is lower as a result of the poor economy and high fuel prices. I haven't noticed the drop she sees. Maybe I will see less traffic crossing Nevada
on I-80, fewer trucks and RVs, both are fuel hogs. She's likely correct, I haven't been paying attention.
