On 30/01/2015 8:44 PM, John B. Slocomb wrote:
On Fri, 30 Jan 2015 09:25:18 -0500, Duane
wrote:

On 29/01/2015 7:32 PM, John B. Slocomb wrote:
On Thu, 29 Jan 2015 08:26:44 -0500, Duane
wrote:

On 29/01/2015 6:54 AM, John B. Slocomb wrote:
On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 20:25:45 -0400, Joy Beeson
wrote:

On Wed, 28 Jan 2015 08:25:48 -0500, dgk wrote:

Or move to Florida. No hills, no winter. There is wind though.

And deep, deep sand.

Or there was in the late fifties.

I was there in the early 1950's and they had made sort of wide paths
with a black looking stuff that were pretty smooth and kept you from
sinking in the sand :-)


Until the wind blows the sand from the beach over those paths.

I don't remember any strong winds. An occasional hurricane certainly
and there was a period where we had fairly strong Westerlies that
carried some very large mosquitoes from the Everglades into the big
city (I measured one while she was having lunch and she measured 1/2"
length, over all), and of course the Palmetto Bugs, but no sand storms
that I remember.



I guess it depends on where you are in FLA. The wind off the gulf along
the panhandle can be pretty intense.

1/2" mosquito? Hell, in Louisiana standards that would be a baby. But
thanks for reminding me what the locals call flying cock roaches. I
always assumed the name Palmetto Bug was invented so as to now frighten
tourists.


Off the Gulf? My god man, Miami is, well was, the only civilized place
in Florida. Once call "the Jewish Riviera" :-)



Well we were talking about FLA, not just Miami. Haven't ridden my bike
in Miami but I remember being behind a guy in a Lincoln at a red light
and when the light cycled he didn't move. I got out to see what was up
and thought he was dead but turns out he was just napping.

I have ridden on the east coast around Daytona and on the gulf coast and
blowing sand was a possibility in both of those places.