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Days Like This Make Me Want to Move to Phoenix

Published on June 20, 2009 in Baby Boomer, Blogging, Empty Nesters and Money. 1 Comment Tags: , , , , .

Because it a dry heat, I would like to be shopping for Phoenix New Homes. If they continue to pay me for links, after 563 more posts I might be able to afford a down payment.

When we left Boston, earlier this week, where it was 58 degrees, cloudy, and windy, I actually thought getting back home, where it was 80 and partly sunny would be welcome.

Wrong foggy-glasses face.

Stepping into the humidity isn’t the same as being warm. I was as uncomfortable here as there.

Now the temp and humidity are climbing even higher.

I’m not really complaining, I just need to get 200 words so the people that build those “semi-custom luxury homes” will be happy.

Here are some humidity one liners I hadn’t heard before… humidity:

  • is looking for air and finding water
  • humidity contains everything from H to O
  • is saved up in cloud banks

How about some Phoenix dry heat one liners?

  • You can say 110 degrees without fainting
  • You realize that asphalt has a liquid state
  • You can drive your car with 2 fingers

This is true: I was dragging a suitcase across a parking lot in Phoenix and it kept getting harder and harder to wheel. I looked back and the hard plastic wheels were getting spongy from the heat and I was leaving tire tracks in the hot asphalt.

It’s not my fault, it’s the asphalt.

We’ve Forgotten What It’s Like to Fly a Legacy Airline

Published on May 9, 2009 in Empty Nesters and Money. 3 Comments Tags: , , , .


Mid-June will are flying to Boston by the seat of my pants.

Docker’s had a deal if you buy a bunch of pants they would give you an airline ticket. I bought enough pairs of pants to get two free tix.

We had a choice of about eight cities and we decided on Boston because 1. we wouldn’t have to fly on a plane all day, and 2. neither one of us had been there since childhood.

We will be flying from BNA to BOS on American Airlines.

Since we haven’t flown anything but Southwest for ages, it just occured to me we would have to pay all the new fees involved. (Southwest isn’t on the fee bandwagon yet.)

We would like our bags to fly with us so I guess we will be paying the $40 fee for a couple bags. I’m such a bargain hound, I think I could buy a wardrobe for four days on $40, Nancy OTOH, (and she is a bargain hound too), would spend that much on underwear. She says she won’t go commando like I would.

We usually don’t eat on the airplane, so we won’t be spending $10 for a sandwich.

Another “feature” we had forgotten about is having an assigned seat!

Then again, the plane we will be on only has 40 seats, so it’s not that big a deal.

We have the Southwest thang down pretty good. We don’t freak out over not getting an A group (first 30 to board) because on Southwest there are at least a dozen family members or travelers needing assistance anyway. And we don’t stand in line for 45 minutes before boarding, because we don’t freak out if we can’t sit beside each other for a three hour flight.

The adventure has begun.

BTW: Rhea is helping out with BOS tips, if you have any, we welcome any advice on things to do, eat, see, buy. Priceline put us up in the Intercontinental Hotel on the Waterfront.