DJ & OP, can't tell you how much I appreciate both of your responses!
The truth is that I believe most of us fit into the same mold if you will :::
We humans are just about 98.5 inside so whether we choose to acknowlage it or not, we need something pretty close to that on the outside!!!!!
While I have been in the East County of San Diego for 46 years, what is left of my family now reside in the Bend Oregon area which is where I am stuck today! My ever colorful and oddly uncharismatic story unfolds as I travel up here to visit after loosing my family home and then slip on the ice & end up needing rotator cuff surgery and now in physical therapy! I dream of never ever seeing snow again in my life! I absolutely hate being cold and love the southwest desert. It may be charma but I'm fighting to get back home to the sunbelt. BTW, my Lance was a piece of******so sold it to pay huge medical copays and now trying to find anything I can sleep and shower in to get me back out there... I know.. it's a rediculous story and every morning I wake up to "Oh no.. it's not a dream... Pine trees everywhere...? Where are my Palm Trees!!!??????????"