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Originally Posted by rtime
Great to hear there is some people from WA and OR living here. We spent 21 years in PDX before moving to PO in 07. We have been sailors for 30 years and wanted to get the sailing experience of sailing in the Puget Sound and Islands.
That experience has been great but we want warm weather now and FL is the place. Having lived in FL before there will be no surprises. The picture of the boat on the post is when we lived on PDX. Its up by Lemon Island.
Jim and Marlene
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Jim and Marlene, By PDX, do you mean the Portland area? Went there 3 years ago for the first time to visit my cousin who moved there in 1970 from Chicago. Beautiful area. First we spent 3 days in Seaside, OR in July. My cousin told me to buy a sweatshirt as the daytime temps. probably would not get above 70. I thought she was kidding -- she wasn't. Then spent 3 days in Hood River, OR. We drove about 5,000 feet up Mt. Hood. People were still sking and snowboarding on Mt. Hood in mid-July. Loved the waterfalls in the parks driving from Portland east to the Hood River area. Bought some great wine in the Hood River area -- lots of wineries in that area. Beautiful Cascade Mountain range. Makes Illinois look like a a flat pancake. Love the mountains in summer, but I probably would not like them in the winter.