I was born & raised in the Richmond, VA area. It can be hot and humid in the summer and cold in the winter but to me there is no place like home. If I get too hot in the summer I slap on my speedo (a sight you really don't want to see!) and hit the water. If it's a bit too cold in winter I throw a log on the fire and cuddle a little closer to my honey. We have the Blue Ridge mountains to the west and the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean to the east and each less than a two hour drive. We have lots of trees and lots of flowers and lots of beautiful rolling farm lands. Our cities are big enough to allow a taste of city life but not big enough to make you feel walled in by people. As I get older, the ideal of becoming a snow bird and wintering in Florida has some appeal as long as I could return to VA in early spring. I've traveled around the world and around the country in my youth but it didn't take long for me to start singing, "Carry Me Back to Old Virginia".
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