On 8/2/16 4:03 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 2 Aug 2016 12:32:25 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote:

On 8/2/16 12:30 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 02 Aug 2016 07:03:53 -0400, Poquito Loco
wrote:

I've been enjoying northern Indiana's Amish country for the past week, so haven't heard anything
about your boat. Glad to hear all is well again.

We are going to be north of you next week and the week after that. We
are heading for northern Michigan


The U.P.?

Nope, that is a whole other place. (perhaps another planet)
We are going to up around the corner from Traverse City in lake
country. My wife found us a nice house on a lake.



Ahh. I lived in Michigan for three years, north of Detroit in Southfield
and then Bloomfield Hills. Got around the state a bit, and got to stay
at a lodge in the U.P. twice. Coldest day in my life up to that point
was a January day in Grand Rapids attending a state Dem party
convention. Did financial/political PR at a big agency. Had great
clients - state NEA, American Motors, Motown, Hudson's Department
Stores, UAW, and a big national mortgage banker. Met Walter Reuther a
few times, and even Jimmy Hoffa. Got seconded to a Dem gubernatorial
race there and then got hired by the national NEA and sent to NY State.
Fun days.

On Tue, 2 Aug 2016 16:15:38 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote:

On 8/2/16 4:03 PM, wrote:

We are going to up around the corner from Traverse City in lake
country. My wife found us a nice house on a lake.



Ahh. I lived in Michigan for three years, north of Detroit in Southfield
and then Bloomfield Hills. Got around the state a bit, and got to stay
at a lodge in the U.P. twice. Coldest day in my life up to that point
was a January day in Grand Rapids attending a state Dem party
convention. Did financial/political PR at a big agency. Had great
clients - state NEA, American Motors, Motown, Hudson's Department
Stores, UAW, and a big national mortgage banker. Met Walter Reuther a
few times, and even Jimmy Hoffa. Got seconded to a Dem gubernatorial
race there and then got hired by the national NEA and sent to NY State.
Fun days.

I have been to Detroit a few times but I never looked around much and
I have been to DTW more times than I want to think about
If you know you are going to be stuck there (delayed flight), call
ahead for a reservation at the Westin. It is right there on the
concourse. There is a private TSA gate and your room is a few minutes
from your plane.

My other trip was this past winter when I went skiing with the kids at
Crystal Mountain. It is an HO gauge ski resort but OK for a mediocre
skier like me. It is a couple hours from GRR. Connections into
Traverse City are sparse.

On Tue, 02 Aug 2016 16:05:34 -0400, wrote:

On Tue, 02 Aug 2016 15:10:33 -0400, Poquito Loco
wrote:

On Tue, 02 Aug 2016 12:30:32 -0400, wrote:

On Tue, 02 Aug 2016 07:03:53 -0400, Poquito Loco
wrote:

I've been enjoying northern Indiana's Amish country for the past week, so haven't heard anything
about your boat. Glad to hear all is well again.

We are going to be north of you next week and the week after that. We
are heading for northern Michigan

I'm back home now, but one of the trips we'd like to take is the 'Around Lake Superior' trip. Maybe
in a couple years. We've stayed in Michingan just so my wife could add Michigan to her map of places
we've been.

Our kids are there so I imagine we will see a lot of Michigan.
"Ranger" Dave esq is a land manager/legal council for a land trust up
there scattered across 5 counties.

Be sure to go agate hunting along the shores of LS.

On Tue, 2 Aug 2016 15:53:29 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote:

On 8/2/16 12:30 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 02 Aug 2016 07:03:53 -0400, Poquito Loco
wrote:

I've been enjoying northern Indiana's Amish country for the past week, so haven't heard anything
about your boat. Glad to hear all is well again.

We are going to be north of you next week and the week after that. We
are heading for northern Michigan



I spent a week plus every August for 10 years in northern Indiana,
teaching a writing class. The campus was beautiful, but the weather was
always really hot and really muggy. Never liked Indiana much, before,
during, or since.

That's good. I'm glad to hear it.

On Tue, 2 Aug 2016 16:15:38 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote:

On 8/2/16 4:03 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 2 Aug 2016 12:32:25 -0400, Keyser Soze wrote:

On 8/2/16 12:30 PM, wrote:
On Tue, 02 Aug 2016 07:03:53 -0400, Poquito Loco
wrote:

I've been enjoying northern Indiana's Amish country for the past week, so haven't heard anything
about your boat. Glad to hear all is well again.

We are going to be north of you next week and the week after that. We
are heading for northern Michigan


The U.P.?

Nope, that is a whole other place. (perhaps another planet)
We are going to up around the corner from Traverse City in lake
country. My wife found us a nice house on a lake.



Ahh. I lived in Michigan for three years, north of Detroit in Southfield
and then Bloomfield Hills. Got around the state a bit, and got to stay
at a lodge in the U.P. twice. Coldest day in my life up to that point
was a January day in Grand Rapids attending a state Dem party
convention. Did financial/political PR at a big agency. Had great
clients - state NEA, American Motors, Motown, Hudson's Department
Stores, UAW, and a big national mortgage banker. Met Walter Reuther a
few times, and even Jimmy Hoffa. Got seconded to a Dem gubernatorial
race there and then got hired by the national NEA and sent to NY State.
Fun days.

Yeah, right. Was all this before or after Vietnam and your two trips around Cape Horn?

On Tue, 02 Aug 2016 16:45:07 -0400, Poquito Loco
wrote:

Our kids are there so I imagine we will see a lot of Michigan.
"Ranger" Dave esq is a land manager/legal council for a land trust up
there scattered across 5 counties.

Be sure to go agate hunting along the shores of LS.

I may put the grand kids on that ;-)

On Tue, 02 Aug 2016 16:57:19 -0400, wrote:

On Tue, 02 Aug 2016 16:45:07 -0400, Poquito Loco
wrote:

Our kids are there so I imagine we will see a lot of Michigan.
"Ranger" Dave esq is a land manager/legal council for a land trust up
there scattered across 5 counties.

Be sure to go agate hunting along the shores of LS.

I may put the grand kids on that ;-)

Sounds like a plan.

On Tue, 02 Aug 2016 17:09:36 -0400, Poquito Loco
wrote:

On Tue, 02 Aug 2016 16:57:19 -0400, wrote:

On Tue, 02 Aug 2016 16:45:07 -0400, Poquito Loco
wrote:

Our kids are there so I imagine we will see a lot of Michigan.
"Ranger" Dave esq is a land manager/legal council for a land trust up
there scattered across 5 counties.

Be sure to go agate hunting along the shores of LS.

I may put the grand kids on that ;-)

Sounds like a plan.

That will be another trip anyway. We will not be in the UP this time.
My wife really wants to spend more time and do more of a traveling
trip some day but this time she just wants to relax and visit the
kids.

On Tue, 02 Aug 2016 19:15:43 -0400, wrote:

On Tue, 02 Aug 2016 17:09:36 -0400, Poquito Loco
wrote:

On Tue, 02 Aug 2016 16:57:19 -0400, wrote:

On Tue, 02 Aug 2016 16:45:07 -0400, Poquito Loco
wrote:

Our kids are there so I imagine we will see a lot of Michigan.
"Ranger" Dave esq is a land manager/legal council for a land trust up
there scattered across 5 counties.

Be sure to go agate hunting along the shores of LS.

I may put the grand kids on that ;-)

Sounds like a plan.

That will be another trip anyway. We will not be in the UP this time.
My wife really wants to spend more time and do more of a traveling
trip some day but this time she just wants to relax and visit the
kids.

My wife went up to northern Minnesota for a 'girl trip', and they always come back with a can full
of agates. But, that's on the Lake Superior shores, not Lake Michigan.