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Originally Posted by Dave Noreen
After thirty years living and working in the Washington, DC area, my Wife and I retired to Spokane County, Washington and Kodiak, Alaska. I much prefer a couple of hours in my parka blowing snow with my Troy-Bilt to another minute in DC area humidity!!
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We seem to be on about the same path as you Dave.
Me - born and raised in the DC area (Gaithersburg)
Better half - born and raised in Aberdeen South Dakota.
At about 21 or so, after my future wife and I met, we packed up and went to Santa Cruz CA w/a college friend. Major earthquake sent us running home to the safety of Moms (like a couple of wimps - 1989)
Returned to the west coast about a year later - Spokane area. Loved it and we happened upon one of the greatest loves of our lives while there - fields full of quail and German Shorthaired Pointers. Couldn't afford good guns. Business ambition brought us back to the DC area after about 2 yrs.
Virtually no winter in the DC area this past season and recently, the heat & humidity has been brutal. Dog hates it.
Have had Shorthairs since our time in WA and I've gotten fairly good at training them up. Guns are much better now. Cannot wait to return to NE WA (or Idaho) for good.