Hey, Chrismas around here is a piece of cake, ride to the top of some mountain, watch the lights flicker in the Valley, and listen to the coyotes sing their carols.
I hear you on the economy, if it keeps going this way around here we might all be riding 500 buck motorscooters at the end of next year.
120 F, isn't so bad. Remember it's a dry heat. LOL
Riding down to the keys was well worth it, but the humidity gets to you after a while.
After october or november it's usually nice even in Death Valley, but the weather changes from day to day, and at times you can downright freeze. As little as a 100 miles makes a big difference, we are lucky here as the weather that usually follows the jetstream mostly misses us, sometimes by as little as 10 miles.