No problem, Ted... I spent some time in LA---Lynwood, actually, in about 1966...Visited it again in the mid 70's and remember seeing the "Little Saigon" sign around there someplace!!! On my trips to California since then it's either been to my Uncle's place outside of Tracy, or to a friend's place out in Corona with only an occasional trip downtown just to say I'd been there!!!!! Gotta be a bit skeptical of any state that elects Conan the Barbarian to be Governor, I guess!!!! No idea what is going to happen to the whole state, but I sure don't see anything good coming in the near future!!! I'll choose to remember California from the eyes of a 16 year old kid who got to make some hot laps and a heat race at Ascot!!!!

Don't know much about Florida, I have a daughter lives in the Tampa area and a bunch of us make it to Daytona occasionally, so that's about the only areas I've seen there. Like I said, I hate the weather here, but a popular saying around here in the winter is that the below zero weather keeps the riff-raff out!!!!

I have some property in Texas and keep saying I'm moving there....but so far I haven't been able to pull the plug and move there permanently---life around here still suits me fairly well. We still don't even have a state vehicle inspection or any form of emissions testing, lots of dirt tracks, a couple of drag strips, some fairly good "street action" on Saturday nights in the summer, and tons of old cars hiding in sheds, garages, barns, and tree groves to turn into Hot Rods----Heck, what more does a guy need, anyway????