camping tonight
 

high of 102, low of 80 tonight with head advisory.

on top of that 30% chance of rain.

So that mains I have to use the fly and pretend my tent is a sweatbox.

(I purchased a battery powered fan last night 6 D batteries).

Texas has horrid weather. I feel sorry for you. It's awful there.

You ought to come here and check it out for yourself(no, that's not an oasis in the distance).

i much prefer Texas weather to Northwest weather. Yuck.

crap, I keep posting from farrah's account. this is me mike. farrah loves the northwest. yuck.

Okay, so you'd prefer boiling hot and humid to average temperatures in the 70's and highs and lows in a fairly narrow range except for odd days. We'll have to agree to disagree. (Yeah, it rains here, but what about hurricanes, etc. in East Texas, or even snow in other places while it's drizzling here.)

The only thing I envy is the melodious sound of all those insects at night in your part of the world. We have a few bull frogs. That's all.

It snows once every couple years in Dallas. No hurricanes up here.

I prefer sun to clouds and drizzle. And I am very familiar with winters in the northwest. Damp cold, with drizzle. Miserable.

To be blunt, one of the things I respect you for is that I can't imagine much worse than camping outside Dallas, for a host of reasons (boiling hot humid weather, no mountains, no crystaline trout streams, insects that will burrow into you, water mocasins, hail that arrives like machine gun bullets amid solid sheets of water, lightning, gang raping hillbillies, serial killer religious kooks, big fat phosphorescent flies that give you welts etc., etc.). Honestly, I'd reather spend a weekend mud wrestling.

some people enjoy nice things. others, like many cyclists, enjoy suffering. "I wonder if I can survive this."