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[Tod Lane]

Originally Posted by 63corvette

I have been retired for 10 years now and we have traveled the country racing and just seeing the country. There are positives and negatives about everywhere we have been.

I spent fourteen years traveling the lower forty eight, and the last eight mostly west of the Mississippi, and I have to agree. Personally I prefer hills and few people...

[Greg Reimer 7376]

Originally Posted by 63corvette

I have been retired for 10 years now and we have traveled the country racing and just seeing the country. There are positives and negatives about everywhere we have been.
As posted above there are good things and bad things about everywhere you go in the country. You just have to choose what works best for you.
I had a uncle who lived just outside Grants Pass Oregon in the 1960's along I believe the Rouge River. His place was upstream from the river that ran through Grants Pass. I was in high school at the time of my first visit to him there and the salmon were running up the river. The river was just full of fish coming to the top of the water. I had never seen anything like it and I understand now it is nothing like that. It was a beautiful place in the 1960's.
Being retired I think a state with no state income tax, a decent climate, and a safe environment is the most important place for me. I can travel from there to the races or whatever and that is what I like most about where we live right now, but I can live and be happy most anywhere.
My 2 Cents

You're right about the salmon run in the Rogue River. We lived upstream from where Lost Creek Dam was built, and the controlled outflow of the river has affected the salmon run.In the mid-late summer, the water temperature rises, and the water isn't as clear, also a politically correct protected class can fish all they want with no limits, so the combined forces have negatively affected the salmon run. I can still remember three foot long salmon jumping several feet out of the river to catch insects for dinner, and going out to fish after dinner and coming back to the house with several big rainbows for a fish fry the next night. It's still a beautiful place. Go up to Union Creek,eat at Beckie's Cafe, drive around to Diamond Lake, go down the Umpqua River area, come out at Roseburg, take the I-5 back to Grants Pass,then tell me how you liked it. I'll never be the same after having lived there as a grade school kid.