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For those of you that have been following the continuing adventures of Boris (all none of you), I'm going to be moving again. This time to the wonderfully desolate land of Southeast Arizona. That's right, I got my DoD clearance and am scheduled to start work at my new job on the 18th. Incidentally, that happens to be the 13th anniversary of my first date. Which is kinda freaky. Especially since it's also the 10th anniversary of the first time I went to the Temple (LDS, for those who hadn't caught wind of that yet in all my lurking). I'm sensing a pattern. Posts: 3003 | Registered: Oct 2004
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Sierra Vista. South East of Tucson. I'll be driving through New Mexico (with a trailer this time, so that will be a new experience).
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Welcome to the land of the scorching sun! Make sure before you make your drive that your car is in good working order (you have a/c right?). It would suck to be stuck in the middle of a nowhere you're not familiar with when it's hot. Posts: 5879 | Registered: Apr 2001
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Oh, My car is just about to hit 34,000 miles, so yeah, it's in pretty good working order
And I'll take driving through New Mexico and Arizona in late spring over driving through Canada in the dead middle of winter any day.
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Yeah. I'm working on Fort Huachuca with STG. Should be an interesting job at least.
Don't know if it's the same project, Farmgirl. I know STG does a lot of different stuff in the area, but I imagine there are also a lot of other contractors there.
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quote:Originally posted by Boris: Oh, My car is just about to hit 34,000 miles, so yeah, it's in pretty good working order
And I'll take driving through New Mexico and Arizona in late spring over driving through Canada in the dead middle of winter any day.
At least in Canadian dead winter you'll still have heat when your car's running... I took a trip across the Arizona desert (to Mexico) in late May once with my dad in a vehicle with no air conditioning (and basically no insulation between the engine and passenger compartments). I got the early stages of heat stroke (stopped sweating, irrationality, etc.) and don't recommend it. Keep in mind that late May in Arizona is hotter than summer in most other areas of the country (we've already had several 100+ days this month and it's not really going to cool down again until October or so).
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Sierra Vista is a lot nicer, weather-wise, than the major cities. It gets a lot more of the summer monsoon storms, which helps to cool things down in the afternoon/evenings. Also, it's more of a dry grassland up there than a cactusy desert. It was Sierra Vista that made my husband decide to continue his schooling in Arizona, but he discovered that Tucson is much hotter and less pleasant.
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