ETA: Also, Sean is correct on the desert thing (not enough precip), but I wanted someone to be pendantier than I. Thanks, big guy.

Always looking out for you, man. That's the kind of guy I am.

NOLA was hot and humid with many mitigating factors; DC was the fucking Gobi Desert.

Actually, although the Gobi desert can get pretty warm in summer, overall it's pretty cold as deserts go. For half the year it doesn't get above freezing.

Hmmm, billytea, how about the Kalahari? Death Valley? The Sahara? Some other hell-desert I can't remember the name of?

Anyhow, compared to NOLA, DC was deeply and abidingly miserable, except for having a hotel full of Buffistas.

And *mwah*, Teppy. Being all sneaky and behind-my-back with your noble act of dinner-joining and limping, but I caught you anyway! Ha ha!

Also, blushing at Heather's compliment.

When do we need to have stuff together for the cities we're pimping.

Wondering, because if it's in the next two weeks I won't have time to research and pimp NO, because I'll be in NO.-0 Though I'll be able to get really good firsthand stuff.

I haven't been to one of these things and I know upthread there was some list or something of what to look at. Could somebody Nilly that for me?

I came home completely wiped by the east coast weather; it's probably no coincidence that DC, New York and New Orleans are all in the top five of cities that people with MS - exacerbations of which are triggered by hot humid weather - are supposed to avoid. If I remember the list correctly, NOLA is numero uno on the "don't go there" hit parade. But it has Galatoires, and Commanders Palace, and fishing in Lake Pontchartrain, damnit. And really good music.

And NY, this time, wasn't even that bad.

NO is also in the top five sweatiest cities in the US. The others are Houston (I think it gets the top honours), Dallas, San Antonio, and some place in Florida. Can't remember which one.

Well, I also am mourning the lack of Buffistas in DC. I usually don't like being touched, but I found myself hugging people with few reservations. And the weather, though uncomfortable, was nowhere near as bad as it's going to get - it really IS a swamp, or at least it used to be. But as I pointed out to people, we haven't had a yellow fever or typhoid epidemic for YEARS.

F2F ABOVE THE ARCTIC CIRCLE!!

That's not desert!

tpedant

Actually, I believe it is. Deserts are defined only by the amount of precipitation received each year, and while much of the arctic and antarctic cirles are frozen and covered with snow, there isn't actually ever much in the way of snowfall, making them both technically deserts.

Thank you, Sean. I was just coming in to defend my slightly-north-of-home-turf.

And it's not that bad in May. 40 degrees or so. Positively balmy. At least the mosquitos haven't had a chance to grow to full-size.

And it's not that bad in May. 40 degrees or so.

FORTY degrees? four zero? In MAY?

You people make these places up just to mess with me.

You people make these places up just to mess with me.

It's June 1 here, and it's in the low fifties outside.