@Pinochet73,
FF, you remind of a TDY trip I took just before getting out of the Army. We left here, south Texas, where it was hotter than Hell, scorching, sun-bleached, sizzled to the bone. We flew up to Astoria, Oregon. It was raining like an MF, cold, overcast, with clouds so thick and low you could almost reach up and grab them. Mosquitoes as big as magpies were hovering over the troops, who crawled through semi-frozen mud, while fighting off ticks and chiggers.
The place sucked.........bad. The troops frequently asked, "Where are you guys from?" When we told them south Texas, they instantly asked, "Is it
warm down there? Does the
sun shine much? It doesn't
rain all the time, does it?" Those boys needed sunshine, dammit --
SUNSHINE.:cussing: