RE: Delegations
Well, cold is relative. We do get our fair share of humidity, though I understand the East Coast gets more. Typical temperatures for us during the winter depends on if it's cloudy and/or raining. If it is, then highs can range between the upper 30s to the upper 40s. If it's sunny, then temperatures can drop below freezing into the mid-teens for a few days. That, however, doesn't happen very often. Normally, it hovers around freezing.
Lately, though, we've had a nicer January and February than most years, but March has been colder and blustery up until the last two days.
We live in the Willamette Valley, so west of the Cascades and roughly 50 miles from the ocean as the crow flies. So, things are more temperate here than they are points north or east. On the other side of the Cascades, it's all high desert, which pretty much sums up Southern Idaho, and most of Utah, so it just keeps going. And on that side, they get all kinds of snow and potentially sub zero temperatures.
My problem is, my bones aren't getting any younger, and they tend to knock together more when the temperature drops below 40. :)
haha.. yes I understand about the bones knocking together... I had cartilage damage in college and can definitely feel the temperature in my knee when its too cold. I think some people have the right idea, they have one home here in NC for the summer and then go to FL for the winter... I am not in a position to do that right now, but it does seem like a good way to escape the extremes.
And that sound like a cool place to be... in between the mountains and the ocean... Especially in the spring and summer! Its definitely on my bucket list of places to see. (I picture the movie Rambo when I think of OR eventhough I don't even know if that was the actual setting)
My grandparents (Dad's parents) use to Winter mainly in Southern California near Carlsbad, or somewhere in Arizona, and lived the rest of the year in a real small town called Bovill, Idaho. They owned a mobile home that sat at the Bovill site and then had a nice sized trailer that they would take to the wintering grounds. It worked out well for them.
I wouldn't mind doing something like that, but I can't seem to convince my wife. :)
Actually, there are deep forest areas and towns like the one in Rambo in Oregon, so you're good there. Unfortunately for Oregon, though (I looked it up), the first Rambo was filmed primarily in British Columbia, even though the story takes place in Washington. Both of those places have large forests, too. @lynncoyle1 would know about the BC side. :)