@ PMC
Try bringing your bike to Texas for a change.
Weather:
March to October - Bright, Sunny, Hot (80-100 degrees) with occasional cloudbursts and very rare tornadic winds.
November to February - 50/50 Clear or Cloudy, with occasional gentle rains and temperatures ranging between 20 and 90 degrees (yes even in December) but mostly in the 40 to 50 range. Snow - only if there is an active volcano somewhere in CONUS (at least in San Antonio). I haven't seen snow for 19 years.
People:
Mostly friendly, especially in the State parks (great biking there). Last year we paid to go horseback on a trail, it was great to be back in a saddle again. I was raised with horses as a child.
Scenery:
Nothing spectacular, but it does have a quiet beauty to it camping under oak trees surrounded by hills or canyon walls. Rivers are usually clean enough for swimming and fishing. Lying in a tent at night listening to the coyotes howl in the distance while the moon looks enormous away from the city lights. Having deer come up to me, some begging to be hand fed. Listening to the raccoons quarrel in the dark of the night over the few scraps left around the picnic table.
Life can be very good in Texas.
