All good things must eventually come to an end or so they say..our week long visit in St. Croix ends and we return home to cold stateside. I dread the shovel we might have to use or the heavy coats we have to haul out to wear. Maybe it's time to think about being a snow bird. "SNOWBIRD" meaning..
A snowbird is someone from the U.S. Northeast, U.S. Midwest, Pacific Northwest, or Canada who spends a large portion of winter in warmer locales such as California, Arizona,Florida, Texas, the Carolinas, or elsewhere along the Sun Belt region of the southern and southwest United States, Mexico, and areas of the Caribbean. Well we can dream anyway..most cannot afford to have two residences to care for. If I were a snowbird where would I go for winter?? Hmmm any suggestions welcome here.
I lived in California for 20 years, and where I was there was little change in season. It was either green and lush or dry and brown. Rain and fog or hot and hotter. No trees changing colors or sight of snowflakes unless you went TO them. You could drive to the ocean,or the mountains in winter. Nice..but pretty expensive to live there. When I returned to Michigan I found that my blood must have thinned a lot because I was freezing and others were laughing at me wearing a sweatshirt in 70 degree weather. Took at least 4 or 5 years to get used to the cold temperatures. My first winter was TERRIBLE. I just could not get warm no matter what I did. Christmas was wonderful...all white and peaceful looking..until I had to snow blow the driveway. Ahhhh I realized why I had moved to warmer territory after all.
Well I would have to think hard on where I would want to live, is there anywhere that has a happy medium? The climate being what it is and so many global warming changes, we all may be in a more warm zone sooner than we think.
HOPE YOU ALL HAVE A WONDERFUL WEEKEND!!
6 comments:
Oh, Sis, this has been a wonderful vacation and I am sorry to be coming back to cold weather.
xoxo
I have mixed feelings about the seasonal changes too. Sometimes I think I wouldn't care to see another snow flake while other times I get kind of sentimental about it. I've skipped a winter or two in the tropics where I've lived in India and the Philippines...not really sure what I do if it was a truly permanent thing. Does a happy medium exist? I don't know.
We are more like California, except not long for the lush and green...now more hot and crunchy dry. So is my skin!
Thanks for the mini escape Carol. I'm going to remember the warm days, beach and palm trees and try to deal with winter one day at a time.
I went to CA a few years ago and for the first time, I felt like I was "home"....The desert was a dream come true.
I lived for a few months in St Croix on my internship in college. Loved it. Warm, white sandy beaches. I long for such warmth again!!
I also lived in Minnesota for 7 years while I went to college. I never once long to go back to that hell of snow and lack of color!! LOL
California...no. It is warm but that is the only thing I love about it...other than San Francisco. I loved it there!!!
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