Yuma AZ time warp

Re: Yuma AZ time warp

feeds@yuku.com (mike2000t) — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 09:52:53 GMT

Amen Skip and Alan.

BTW Alan, I'm with ya. Those ape hangers look uncomfortable as hell.

Re: Yuma AZ time warp

feeds@yuku.com (Skip MMShadowT) — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 18:26:39 GMT

As for armed citizens I get a feeling of safety knowing there are many responsible armed citizens around me. Some nut pulls a gun in a mall and is taken down by an armed citizen before it's a massacre.

An armed society is a polite society.

Re: Yuma AZ time warp

feeds@yuku.com (alepel) — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:56:37 GMT

alan wrote:
I guess my writing isn't so clear. It's not my pedal bike with ape hangers......... it's the local Harley riders.

I knew that....I was just having some fun.

Re: Yuma AZ time warp

feeds@yuku.com (alan) — Thu, 13 Dec 2007 12:00:57 GMT

I guess my writing isn't so clear. It's not my pedal bike with ape hangers......... it's the local Harley riders. The MCAS is in Yuma.... about a mile from our back door. I was in US Navy aviation. We picked Yuma cause we have family in this trailer park and the living is relatively inexpensive. Yuma is much like CC 25 years ago....... before it got too big for its britches and built up. As for armed citizens I get a feeling of safety knowing there are many responsible armed...

Re: Yuma AZ time warp

feeds@yuku.com (alepel) — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:31:19 GMT

alan.....the picture you painted of Yuma is not quite what I imaged. At least not the cold part. I can understand why you like to live there but you never explained how you came to select Yuma especially when you spoke so highly of Corpus Christi. Why did you not select CC?

One other note in your posting was the reference to the Marine Corps Air Base at San Diego. Were you in the service? My wife and I were suppose to go to the Marine Corps Air Base this past October for the Air...

Re: Yuma AZ time warp

feeds@yuku.com (alan) — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 12:02:50 GMT

Why did we pick Yuma? We only live here for the winter. Our main home is on Vancouver Island in BC Canada where we spend 7 months in spring thru fall. I lived most of my adult life in Corpus Christi,Tx and only moved to Canada in 2000. Yuma reminds me a lot of CC about 25 years ago. CC winter weather is nicer than Yuma though. Nights here are quite cold........ low 40's........ and days in the 60's 70's. We're spending Christmas in CC and it will be my first time back there...

Re: Yuma AZ time warp

feeds@yuku.com (alepel) — Sun, 09 Dec 2007 15:55:45 GMT

Alan....from your description I understand your title about the "time warp".

On another note I'd like to ask you a question as a future retiree. From all that I have read about Yuma and how hot it gets there, why did you and your wife pick this place as your winter home? What attracted you to this part of the country?

I believe it was you in an earlier posting, talking about getting a trailer to take your T with you to Yuma. Did you ever get the trailer and do...

Yuma AZ time warp

feeds@yuku.com (alan) — Sat, 08 Dec 2007 21:18:43 GMT

Well, here I am in wonderful Yuma AZ. I have been shoveling sunshine for a weeks now.............. the stuff won't stop coming down. But this place has a certain time warped......... thing........ going on. Ape hangers!!! That's right...... handlebars way higher than a persons shoulders. It seems everywhere I go there are middle aged paunchy guys riding Harleys with ape hangers. Great big fat ol' geezer glides.......... black, greasy rat bikes............ nipponese...