Relocating the entire farm...

[EddieWalker]

One of the things we really didn't like about CO was how small the roads where when you are in the mountains, and how congested they are with traffic. For fun while fighting the traffic, we would count Subaru's. It wasn't uncommon for every 4th car to be a Subaru!!!!

 

[Doofy]

Been to Hill Country and Tyler and could enjoy living in either. To much snow and cold in Montana and Colorado. Ready for 4 seasons instead of just 2.

 

[Peter 315]

Move to NH....:laughing:.....

 

[Doofy]

Move to NH....:laughing:.....View attachment 683464

You do have a beautiful Spring, Summer and Fall. :drink:

 

[2LaneCruzer]

]One of the things we really didn't like about CO was how small the roads where when you are in the mountains, and how congested they are with traffic. [/B]For fun while fighting the traffic, we would count Subaru's. It wasn't uncommon for every 4th car to be a Subaru!!!!

Same here. I grew up in the Great Plains; and I get claustrophobia in mountainous areas. Any time you can't pull over on the shoulder, or find a place to park, or where it's a 100 foot drop at the edge of the road, I get anxious...especially with someone riding your bumper.

 

[Maxify55]

My Mrs., as well, is 7 yrs younger than I & gets job offers all over the WORLD for her particular medical expertise.
I remember a time when we were actually filling out the paperwork for immigration into Cairo, Egypt!
I almost put my Missouri behind down there with the pyramids!
9/11 came, went & left us feeling that moving where all the turbulence IS might not be our wisest move.
She still gets offers for anywhere from Fairbanks to Hilo for 2 or 3 times what she's currently making!
She's a transplanted Canadienne & I've moved far too many times in my life to look forward to moving again, willingly.
I ponder what I'll look like with a toe tag and a one way trip to the place where the Neptune Society keeps post marking the mail I throw out.
Besides, most of our stuff belongs on the burn pile, the dumpster or the GoodWill shelves.

 

[STx]

Same here. I grew up in the Great Plains; and I get claustrophobia in mountainous areas. Any time you can't pull over on the shoulder, or find a place to park, or where it's a 100 foot drop at the edge of the road, I get anxious...especially with someone riding your bumper.

There are areas in the Hill Country that are just like that. 46 between Boerne and 16, parts of 173 south of Bandera, 16 between Bandera and Kerrville and the best drive in the state, I think, 337 from Medina to Camp Wood.

 

[Doofy]

There are areas in the Hill Country that are just like that. 46 between Boerne and 16, parts of 173 south of Bandera, 16 between Bandera and Kerrville and the best drive in the state, I think, 337 from Medina to Camp Wood.

My Father lived in Kerrville for a bit and my Sister and family spent years in Camp Wood. All nice country. 3 relatives were murdered in Bandera County in 1863.

 

[Oaktree]

You do have a beautiful Spring, Summer and Fall. :drink:

Meh on spring. A few nice days to get your hopes up, then settles back to 45 and overcast. Frost doesn't really come out of the ground 'til early May, then the blackflies hit. I don't mind winter, summers and fall are beautiful.

 

[Gem99ultra]

There are areas in the Hill Country that are just like that. 46 between Boerne and 16, parts of 173 south of Bandera, 16 between Bandera and Kerrville and the best drive in the state, I think, 337 from Medina to Camp Wood.

Great motorcycling roads there too. The roads we called Three Sisters is top notch.

 

[STx]

Great motorcycling roads there too. The roads we called Three Sisters is top notch.

Bandera is inundated with motorcycles every weekend. I can't hear them unless we've got a strong N wind though. Thunder in the Hill Country happens just a few miles from the new ranch.

 

[ultrarunner]

We're leaving the area more than anything else. Thefts are picking up again, I had batteries stolen out of a mower and a truck recently and some other stuff has walked off. Life is too short to live somewhere you can't ever leave for fear stuff will be gone when you get back.

Safety really is the heart of the matter and I've never seen so many moves because of it previously...

 

[ultrarunner]

Mt and Co are both really nice if you're in the rockies. The problem with Co for me is the political leanings of the cities there. It's like Austin, but worse. Some of that Austin nonsense is creeping into the rest of the Hill Country as more tech companies relocate and bring their employees but, the more rural areas like we're in are still pretty down to Earth.

Yep... Austin is most definitely a destination for Bay Area relocations... some here say Austin is the only Texas destination they would consider as their Silicon Valley Tech moves/expands outside CA...

 

[STx]

Yep... Austin is most definitely a destination for Bay Area relocations... some here say Austin is the only Texas destination they would consider as their Silicon Valley Tech moves/expands outside CA...

I wish they'd stop. They should fix their own mess instead of coming here and making another one.

 

[tradosaurus]

Congratulations. My original plan when moving to Texas was to be in the Hill Country. Sounds like you found an awesome spot with all that water, and having Axis is a huge bonus. My wife shot three does down near Sonora a couple years ago while I was hunting free range blackbuck and sika. They where the best tasting steaks!!!!

When I moved from CA to TX, I rented the biggest UHaul with a trailer that they had and hauled everything I could fit on it, then flew back and did it again. On the third trip, I drove my truck, with a trailer, and my ex drove her car with her house plants in it. Overall, it was a huge pain trying to decide what to bring, and what to get rid of. After settling in and finally unloading everything from storage, I ended up throwing away about half of what I hauled here. It was overwhelming trying to decide what I would need when I had never lived here. If I ever do it again, I really think that I'll sell, give away, or donate to Goodwill, almost everything.

What happened is a lot of my stuff just didn't survive being in storage. The heat, moving stuff around, and then putting unopened boxes in my garage and having a leak that got the boxes all wet added to the problem. But I've never missed anything that I threw away, and what was really important to me, we treated differently then the stuff that I just couldn't decide on what to do with it when I was packing up and moving here.

In the end, it's just stuff.

Having moved my large family (9 kids) a couple of times we learned to take only the essentials and sell or give away the rest. If I couldn't get it with a large U-haul truck towing a large trailer and another driver towing a large trailer it didn't come.

Now with only 2 kids left my habit is if it doesn't get used within two years it gets sold or given away. I have one outside storage shed that I go through once a year. I refuse to collect junk.

 

[Kyle_in_Tex]

I wish they'd stop. They should fix their own mess instead of coming here and making another one.

Amen. My boss has a ranch on 337. I've never been, nor been even close to being invited. He thinks it's a secret and that company workers don't know about it. I'm one of a few, having fixed his SXS mule.

 

[Sawyer Rob]

MANY years ago, I picked up and moved 4500 + miles, it wasn't easy but I got it done!!

Yeaa, I hauled a tractor, tools and most everything else!

SR

 

[ultrarunner]

MANY years ago, I picked up and moved 4500 + miles, it wasn't easy but I got it done!!

Yeaa, I hauled a tractor, tools and most everything else!

SR

South America to North America...?

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I started out in Alaska...and moved to the lower 48...

I made several pu/trailer load trips plus shipped a 40' van load...

SR