Fucking fuck traveling for work fuck

[Caliga]

Caliga, you are on drugs.

I lived in Tucson and Phoenix for a long time. 110 degrees is fucking HOT, and I don't give a shit how "dry" it is. It is fucking hot. Insanely hot. Don't go outside hot, and certainly don't get into a car hot.

Different strokes for different folks, I guess.  Probably massive and arterial for me given my gluttony, but I digress. 

Anyway, maybe somehow Arizona is different than New Mexico.... dunno.  But it didn't really bother me and I remember being shocked to see the thermometer given how it felt outside to me.

[Alcibiades]

What's the big deal seedy?  You aren't 60 yet so you shouldn't die of heat stroke.

[sbr]

Caliga, you are on drugs.

I lived in Tucson and Phoenix for a long time. 110 degrees is fucking HOT, and I don't give a shit how "dry" it is. It is fucking hot. Insanely hot. Don't go outside hot, and certainly don't get into a car hot.

And yeah, it cools right off into the 90s at night in July.

I lived in Phoenix for a few years too.  One day it was 122.  The airport had to close because of the heat.

The good thing is that 120 feels exactly the same as 110.

[Maximus]

Different strokes for different folks, I guess.  Probably massive and arterial for me given my gluttony, but I digress. 

Anyway, maybe somehow Arizona is different than New Mexico.... dunno.  But it didn't really bother me and I remember being shocked to see the thermometer given how it felt outside to me.

I think altitude may play a part. IIRC Phoenix is quite a bit lower than most of Arizona and New Mexico. CBA to look it up though.

[MadImmortalMan]

What's the difference? You can't go outside in Baltimore either without wearing a snorkel in the summer. 

[Caliga]

You guys who lived in Arizona obviously know better than me--I was merely offering my own ancedotal experience.... and Max is probably right about altitude playing a role.

I can certainly report that Houston and New Orleans are often intolerable in the summer.

[derspiess]

I have to fly to Phoenix in June.  Fucking fuck.

"But it's a dry heat, man."  Well, so's your fucking oven.  Fucking Arizona in summer.

Anybody else have to go someplace they don't want to go for work?

Yeah, but I generally don't blubber about it online.

Our traditional client base has been located in secondary (or worse) markets, but we're getting more in larger cities, Florida, and the Pacific northwest.  So my trips tend to alternate between places I like & places I hate.

So for every crappy little rust belt or Appalachian town I have to travel to, there is a trip to Fort Lauderdale, Sarasota, Miami, Seattle, or Grants Pass (Oregon).

I haven't been to Arizona (save for a quick jump across the state line) but I visited New Mexico 3 times back in 1997 and loved it.  No humidity and a cool arid landscape I had never seen before.  No desire to live there, but a nice place to visit.

[Syt]

What's the difference? You can't go outside in Baltimore either without wearing a snorkel in the summer. 

I bet you also really sweat a lot under those bullet proof wests.

[Barrister]

I'll take every single time and place mentined on this thread over travelling to Ross River, Yukon in January.

[Caliga]

So for every crappy little rust belt or Appalachian town I have to travel to, there is a trip to Fort Lauderdale, Sarasota, Miami, Seattle, or Grants Pass (Oregon).

We're acquiring more operations in 'cool' places, too, like the ones I mentioned in Honolulu and Puerto Rico.  We also just bought a huge operation in Seattle and I was hoping I'd be asked to go out there, but they didn't need me.

In fact, there's a discovery visit taking place right now at an operation in Nags Head, NC. 

[ulmont]

I can certainly report that Houston and New Orleans are often intolerable in the summer.

New Orleans is fine in the summer, unless you're some kind of pansy.

[MadImmortalMan]

You guys who lived in Arizona obviously know better than me--I was merely offering my own ancedotal experience.... and Max is probably right about altitude playing a role.

I can certainly report that Houston and New Orleans are often intolerable in the summer.

Flagstaff is one of the nicest places to be in the summer because it's on top of a mountain covered in nice big pine trees. The climate is very comfortable there.

[Berkut]

Caliga, you are on drugs.

I lived in Tucson and Phoenix for a long time. 110 degrees is fucking HOT, and I don't give a shit how "dry" it is. It is fucking hot. Insanely hot. Don't go outside hot, and certainly don't get into a car hot.

And yeah, it cools right off into the 90s at night in July.

I lived in Phoenix for a few years too.  One day it was 122.  The airport had to close because of the heat.

The good thing is that 120 feels exactly the same as 110.

That is true - once you crack 110, it really makes no difference anymore. It is so searingly hot that it doesn't really matter anymore.

Summers in Phoenix are like winters in upstate New York - it isn't just the extreme of the weather, it is the seemingly never ending consistency of it. Once it breaks 100, it is going to be over 100 every single day for months.

[Berkut]

You guys who lived in Arizona obviously know better than me--I was merely offering my own ancedotal experience.... and Max is probably right about altitude playing a role.

I can certainly report that Houston and New Orleans are often intolerable in the summer.

Flagstaff is one of the nicest places to be in the summer because it's on top of a mountain covered in nice big pine trees. The climate is very comfortable there.

Lived there for a few years as well.

Flagstaff is very nice, climate wise. It gets pretty damn hot at times (into the 90s) but it isn't that every day, inescapable heat that you get in Phoenix. It will get hot, then cool down, then get hot again, etc., etc. Flagstaff in general is pretty nice all year though.

Kind of a shitty little town though, as far as the city itself.

[Grey Fox]

Do you prefer Upstate NY, Berkut?