How terrible to drink from Mountain streams and walk in cold fresh clean water. I carried a bottle of mountain water from the park with me for ten years just to take a sip again.
Yes it is very nice further out west and not as cold all the time. You should come for the cherry blossom in the valley. It will be a week or two of them blooming from south to north in the valley and the air is sweet. Your blog and contributors will thank you for it.
So it sounds like you have to make that book published, so you can afford to keep making more great posts.