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Chasing 75 degree weather all year? Need some input

Free_Range_Huma
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One of the biggest reasons I'm living in my RV is so I can chase the climate, west coast only.

I was dreaming today of a mythical place(s) where it's "always" 75 degrees, with very low humidity and cool nights -- mostly because I live in the PNW now, and today it was 90 degrees!, with more humidity than I like. (I should plan next summer to get into a higher elevation, I think.)

But I know my plans to head south as fall approaches are by no means foolproof. I've lived in or been through a whole lot of Calif, and know that I can get surprised with 90 degrees there even in the fall. (Still remember one CHRISTMAS EVE as a kid heading into Orange County with the car's A/C on! Did not feel very Ho-Ho-Ho that year! 😄 )

What would be your vote for a west coast route that does its best to maintain mild temperatures simply by moving? I'd planned to keep returning to southern WA every June and leaving at the end of Sept or Oct, before it gets really cold again, and suppose I should still do that, in spite of the few really hot days which have me (currently) whining and rethinking this.

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After living most of our lives in the lower desert of SO Cal we chased the coolest summers for nine years. Then we realized that we wanted seasons...four instead of 2....hot and hotter. We now live where we have four seasons and love it. Everyone has different ideas about what they think is best.
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Free Range Human wrote:
BarbaraOK wrote:
If I was going to stay put in one spot all year round, and I could afford it, it would be somewhere around Cloverdale, CA

Ack!! No, no no. Cloverdale is HOT in the summer. I lived in Guerneville for 11 years (very affordable... in a permanents-only trailer park that was a wonderful community), and that was usually quite nice in the summer.


After more years than I care to count in the south, anywhere where the night time temperature is below 80 in the summer is good for me. 105 with 95% humidity (east Tx) can really sap you in a hurry, especially with night time lows of 85. Also lived through several hot summers in Phoenix, so if it isn't 110 the it is just very warm. On the other side, after 13 yes in Michigan, cold isn't until 0F, above that is brisk!

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Wow, TechWriter... this is downright magnificent. And I thought I was anal-retentive! 😄

Unlike you, I was able to eliminate the entire rest of the country except the Left Coast, because humidity makes me INSANE. Luckily, I do have lots of personal experience with most of the parts of Calif, which sped things up a bit.

"John & Angela" was right about parts of Mexico, too, from everything I've read: Lake Chapala is an ex-pat haven, in large part because of the wonderful year-round weather.

My plans are shaping up to be: Washington near the Canadian border from June to August (though June in Washington can start out cold), then working my way slowly down the coast until I get to near the Mexican border, for the winter months.

Fall in Calif is unpredictable; I wouldn't want to risk Sacramento and south of there until mid-October. It will generally be cooler than 75 degrees after that, but I'll take "cooler" over "85 degrees" any day. 😄

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BarbaraOK wrote:
If I was going to stay put in one spot all year round, and I could afford it, it would be somewhere around Cloverdale, CA

Ack!! No, no no. Cloverdale is HOT in the summer. I lived in Guerneville for 11 years (very affordable... in a permanents-only trailer park that was a wonderful community), and that was usually quite nice in the summer.

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Free Range Human wrote:
Ha ha! I've been wondering about this so long that I'd completely forgotten having bookmarked this blog post! He wrote it 2 years ago:

70 AND SUNNY ALL YEAR – MOVING THE RV WITH THE WEATHER

Ok, since we're not limiting this to the West Coast, I created this US average temp map before we started full timing . . . BLUE = Too Cold, RED = Too Hot.

A couple of East Coast cities surprised me for their mild all-year temps.
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Chasing means to travel. The Rockies for the summer, and down south for winter. Plenty of places for spring and fall. One has a furnace and an A/C to deal with moderate changes.

A mid day high or an overnight low are hardly reasons to avoid the rest of the continent.
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Ha ha! I've been wondering about this so long that I'd completely forgotten having bookmarked this blog post! He wrote it 2 years ago:

70 AND SUNNY ALL YEAR – MOVING THE RV WITH THE WEATHER

John___Angela
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Free Range Human wrote:
John & Angela wrote:
I would disagree strongly that that kind of climate doesn't exist in North America. There are dozens of places in Mexico in the inland that are popular expat spots with RV parks that have exactly that climate. San Miguel de Allende, Lake Chapala, San Cristobal de las Casas and lots of others. Above 3000 to 4000 there are lots of perpetual spring time climates.

JMHO

S/He's right, from everything I've read in the last 3 years about Mexico.


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John & Angela wrote:
I would disagree strongly that that kind of climate doesn't exist in North America. There are dozens of places in Mexico in the inland that are popular expat spots with RV parks that have exactly that climate. San Miguel de Allende, Lake Chapala, San Cristobal de las Casas and lots of others. Above 3000 to 4000 there are lots of perpetual spring time climates.

JMHO

S/He's right, from everything I've read in the last 3 years about Mexico.

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I would disagree strongly that that kind of climate doesn't exist in North America. There are dozens of places in Mexico in the inland that are popular expat spots with RV parks that have exactly that climate. San Miguel de Allende, Lake Chapala, San Cristobal de las Casas and lots of others. Above 3000 to 4000 there are lots of perpetual spring time climates.

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In the U.S., it has to be southern California, right on the coast. But that's going to be humid. Get more than a few miles inland, particularly over the first range of hills, and it can get over 100 F for days at a time in the inland valleys.

The kind of place you seek exists, but not in North America, and not where you might RV. But you don't have to move, it is always springtime.

The environment is high altitude inland mountains in the tropics. Highlands in Southeast Asia, some mountain areas in southern China (Shangri La is real) and some mountains in Equitorial Africa.

My favorite is Kunming, which has average temperatures from 8 C to 20 C year round, though the highs can reach 25 and the winter lows withing a few degrees of freezing. Winters cool and dry, summers hot and wet. The monsoons thus might be a problem for you, as they can be anywhere in South Asia.

Vientiane might work better for you, with more even temperatures year-round, averages consistently close to the highs. You would be looking at 7-8 (rainy) months staying just under 30 C, nights cooling to 25 C, and temperatures 16-18 C during the short dry winters.

But you said 75 F, not 85-90 F, so we need to find something with that tropical temperature stability at a higher altitude. It will likely be a remote highlands village, so living there would be like camping, as well.

Cities, and city amenities, are rare in these places because commerce in the tropics has long depended on waterways for travel, so most development is along the big rivers, with the important cities being seaports near major river deltas (Saigon, Hanoi, Bangkok, Guangdong, Manila, etc). The mountains were always a major trek, still difficult today with rail and air travel.
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BarbaraOK
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I guess the question is, are you going to spend your life sitting still or are you going to use the wheels under the rig to get you to different areas for different seasons.

If I was going to stay put in one spot all year round, and I could afford it, it would be somewhere around Cloverdale, CA (upper Sonoma Valley). Of course my liver couldn't take that area year round.

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Naio wrote:
I think you may have to go down into Mexico (if not southeast asia) if 75 is a minimum as well as a maximum. Socal or Quartzite are good if you can handle low 60s sometimes, and high 60s a lot.

When it gets hot in the NW in the summer, go to the coast, mountains, or Canuckistan :B.
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I think you may have to go down into Mexico (if not southeast asia) if 75 is a minimum as well as a maximum. Socal or Quartzite are good if you can handle low 60s sometimes, and high 60s a lot.

When it gets hot in the NW in the summer, go to the coast, mountains, or Canuckistan :B.
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