Flyhound wrote:General Aviation News used to have a special website that captured all of the airparks in the country. They stopped charging for access to the site a couple of years ago, but I think they also stopped maintaining the list. It still seems pretty complete, and the website gives links to the detailed information on each of the airparks listed. You can search by state, or you can use the national map to get started. I found this really useful when we were considering life on an airpark.

http://livingwithyourplane.com/directory-2/

We finally stopped searching for an airpark home because we are almost fully retired and I don't know how many more years of flying I have in me. There are financial as well as questions about long term competency for the kind of flying I enjoy, As a result, we focused on finding a lot we could build a retirement home on that was close to an airport while I'm still in the game. Water access was important, a mild climate was important and affordability was important. Affordability is a relative term though, and we did not expect to find dirt cheap lots with easy access to salt water, We wound up building a home in Washington State on Port Townsend Bay. We are 4 minutes from the airport, we are located just above a state park on the water and we have views of a snow capped volcano (mount Baker) from our front deck. We think we've died and gone to heaven. The house is almost done, and our move in date is 2/23/16, less than 2 weeks away. Anybody want to help us move???

soyAnarchisto wrote: Gary, That's a fantastic spot. I lived a stones throw from your lot just off of Prospect for 9 months and we really loved it. I hope things have changed but there were known meth cooks in the neighborhood back in 2001 just on the other side of Salmon Creek. ....

CamTom12 wrote:Congrats! I flew into deming a few times last month. I'm back east now. Too bad the timing didn't work to meet up!

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deckofficer wrote:

CamTom12 wrote:Congrats! I flew into deming a few times last month. I'm back east now. Too bad the timing didn't work to meet up!

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When I was up in Feb to view and buy the place, blue skies, starry nights, and a temperature swing of 45 to 65. Now that I've been here two days, there is a element to our weather patterns that I should have researched....WIND and a lot. The locals in Deming when asked say it is normal for two months. Our strip is aligned with the prevailing winds, and even without a X wind, they are too high for me.

deckofficer wrote:I made it. 3 days of packing up two residences, 1,100 mile jaunt with belongings in my enclosed auto transport trailer along with an electric car. Tire blew east of Tucson, spare still looking brand new as Ford covers it with carpet in the rear cargo area. Got in at 3:00 AM Friday for my first good sleep in 3 nights, and in my new place no less. It is better than I remember, feeling good about the purchase. Got unpacking same morning after 4 hours sleep, (beats 2 hour sleeps the previous 3 nights) then a "run" into town (Deming, NM, 29 miles away) to swing by the title company for some signatures, then the power company to transfer billing, and off to Wal-Mart for some low prep type of foodstuffs. Today Saturday finished most the unpacking and started to hook the PC up on my neighbor's wi-fi. And that is where I hit a snag. Since I never have used a PC to receive wi-fi, I bought the USB dongle that has an antenna and makes the PC able to receive like all laptops have done for years. Dick the neighbor offered his password and after installing the drivers I though I was good to go but no connection. Believing I could have messed up the install on the PC I checked on my lap top and no connection. Later on this evening the speed of connection trickled up to 1/4 the speed of old dial-up connection, so needless to say no pictures till I'm on my own DSL.

Winds today 20 mph gusting to 40 mph. Just passing that along because it wasn't passed to me.