A message to PurplePaw. We aren't all in California.

i like ice skating /shrug

Even in Arizona, you'll notice that nobody is outside in summer due to heat. I haven't been to Texas in a while , but with the 50+ days of 100, I'm guessing it was similar. Plus the first 6 or 8 months of a tlp are bad expansions anyway. If you like the launch "magic" or racing, you can rush for the first week, then it's just 10 levels and you can come back in late velious or Luclin not that far behind. I personally don't mind them being rotating start times by the way, but there is no goldilocks zone for launch that will make everyone, or even most, happy.

Depends on where you are in Texas. On the Gulf Coast, we have Padre Island, so summer beach days are easy to do. If you're in the Hill Country, there are a number of popular rivers to tube (Frio and Guadalupe rivers specifically) so you can enjoy a day in the hot sun, and just slip off your tube into the cold water when you need to. East Texas is just swamp butt, and if you say rain in Houston, the streets flood. It gets really hot out in West Texas, but where my property is located, is between two small mountain ranges. I get less total sun during the day, so the temperature rarely gets above 95*, and it's a dry heat. The RGV is hot and sticky, but there's ample aquatic activities, because of the river and the coast being so close. I can't speak to the Panhandle, everybody I know that's gone there, just got their degree from Texas Tech, and won't speak of anything about the place.