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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 since 2000. CC may still be a better winter choice. Yuma is only 4 hrs to Phoenix or San Diego. There is also a Marine Corps Air Station here.
I didn't trailer the T cause of the expense......... about $600 actual trailer expense. BC cycle insurance is VERY expensive for a full year. BC and Canada in general allow almost no competition in many consumer areas. Insurance is one....... cable, phone, electric rates, gas pricing are others. I was going to buy a bike when I got here and looked at a few, but it's really too cold here in the winter to really enjoy riding. For me anyway....... by 6PM I would need a jacket and gloves....... most days too. Although the sun is bright the north wind blowing right down from Canada is cooooold. We also left late this year........ late November and from east of Seattle to Idaho it poured rain and then we were barely 12 hours ahead of snow all through Nevada in the upper elevations of route 93 and 95. Pulling a trailer in a minivan with chains through one of the most desolate high desert areas of the US is no fun. I do have my pedal bike and I'm going out for a ride now....... Yuma is neat for that. Imagine......... ape hangers with leather streamers......looong streamers. Smack.....slap. Oh and no helmet law in AZ........... 41F and just a bandanna. Liberal gun laws. Saw a couple on a Road King........ he with brown leather jacket and shoulder holster with looked like a Ruger heavy caliber......... her with a semi-auto on her hip. Totally cool. Gotta go. bye4now.

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 citizens around me. Some nut pulls a gun in a mall and is taken down by an armed citizen before it's a massacre. It's like a fire extinguisher........ i'm not expecting a fire to break out, and it's pretty unlikely, but I'm ready if it does.