Sharon - too bad - come back and visit the Northwest!! Tell me - have you noticed any differences since you left the rain? I try to spend the winters down in the Anza-Borrego Desert which is near you but I can't seem to be able to tell if the warmer weather makes movement any easier. I get out and walk more when we are down south so that helps keep me limber and I don't get the "blues" so much when I am not around this continual rain. But I think the pain factor stays the same.
Mickey