Wally wrote:
> kakki, put on your bikini and make believe you're in buenos aires in early > spring. if we run out into the parks and start sunbathing as soon as the > temperature hits the 40's, you can do it too, child! Oh believe me I've been doing some tropical climate visualizing lately! When I was young and had a high metabolism I would go swimming in the ocean in January - but now I would get hypothermia. I want you and Mary to come here in the depths of winter and then we'll talk! I think the tourist industry has propagated a myth about the warm and sunny southwestern states! In the past I've freaked and fretted when I've had to travel to Chicago, Omaha and Minnepolis in the winter thinking I would totally expire. I was surprised to find the sensation of cold in those places really not too different than here! But of course, we do not have to dig out from snow and we ARE disoriented when it merely rains, so yes, we are a a somewhat different (wimpier) breed. ;-) Kakki
