Michael
Hope the move is uneventful, Michael. You'll be changing your "handle"
to East of the Pecos, I presume?
Barry
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Did you get shots of the fire yesterday? Where ever you're going I
hope they have a lot more coin shops than they do here<sigh>.
Just make sure that the snowblower is ready in fall. ;-)
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Welcome back to Michigan. The Traverse City area is beautiful
but pricey, especially property along Lake Michigan. That whole area
has seen a lot of change over the past few decades.
Being in the military, I am familiar with having to pack up and leave
a place you don't want to. I hope everything goes ok.
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"from West of the Pecos" <mike194...@aol.comoesta> wrote in message
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>Would that be Traverse City MI? Grew up not to far from there. Hope you like
sand and cherries.
Is there another Traverse City? I do not like sand _with_ my cherries. You
wash strawberries, of course, and spinach, too, to get the sand off. I never
had a problem with sand in my cherries, the trees being a bit off the ground
and all. (:-)
TC is the nexus for our new locale. Actually, Laurel's one side of the family
is from Leenenau and the other from Kingsley. In fact, I dragged my daughter
to the State Library once (maybe twice, successfully) and having met one of the
Librarians at a conference, she showed us some archives that listed one of my
daughter's ancestors from Kingsely enlisted in the Civil War.
Michael
"Directly descended from more recent immigrants."
>Did you get shots of the fire yesterday?
Fire in the bosque at I-40 and Rio Grande! I saw the smoke, but stayed away
from the action, preferring to let the professionals deal with a dangerous
situation.
> I hope they have a lot more coin shops than they do here<sigh>.
Northern Michigan shares some commonalities with the land west of the Pecos,
pard. Native reservations with casinos (vengeance!)... bears and other wild
animals... lots of un- and under-developed land...
(Last summer, I stood a post at a resort up in the Manzanos. I had no problem
keeping the kids out of the pool at night, but those "Do not feed the bears"
signs gave me pause!)
> I hope they have a lot more coin shops than they do here<sigh>.
Traverse City is a tourist area. So, coin shops tend to be less exciting unless
you are a known Local. Generally, however, Michigan is a great state for
numismatists. I think it started with George Heath. (Ohio was far less
interesting for a collector than Michigan was.) One day, I took the most
recent issue of Mich-Matist and hit nine coin stores outside Detroit. There
are about that many clubs, as well. Of course, there are 3-million-plus people
in that one tri-county area, versus 1.5 million in the state of New Mexico.
One thing I am looking forward to is the opportunity to explore Spanish
(Mexican, Peruvian) silver of the colonial era. I found it wildly unaffordable
here -- again, the tourist factor.
They don't shoot as many movies up there, of course. I wrote an article for
the NM Biz Journal about the College of Santa Fe -- huge sound stage, seminars
by Ron Howard. I shot some pictures of the filming of the new Adam Beech
movie, "Coyote Way" downtown a couple of weeks ago. (I got two federal
courthouses, but could not draw and shoot fast enough to get them at the
Artichoke.) Then, my landlord had the house painted and one of the guys said
he had been an extra in the Kevin Costner movie "Wyatt Earp."
There is a lot of art and culture here. Santa Fe is the third largest art
market in the world. As for writing, well, you know, everyone here is two
paychecks away from being homeless and you see a lot of those old guys sitting
on the corner, writing in their journals. (:-)
Take it easy, pard, and I'll see you the next time I follow the tracks of old
Josiah Gregg.
Michael
Stujoe wrote:
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> Being in the military, I am familiar with having to pack up and leave
> a place you don't want to. I hope everything goes ok.
I did not know you liked Lackland AFB that well. : > ) (tm)
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> I had several business trips last year from LA to Cadillac. We didn't fly to TC because
> the airfare was too high compared to flying to Grand Rapids and driving north. I did
drive
> west through the forest from Cadillac to hit the casino located near the coast.
Beautiful
> area.
>
> AND the folks went NUTS over the Golden Dollars and SBAs I brought with me. I spent
rolls
> of them everywhere (along with some Twos).
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> "from West of the Pecos" <mike194...@aol.comoesta> wrote in message
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"Hope you have a safe journey. Do your family research while you are there. One
day your daughter will want it."
Doris. Ever the geneologist. ;-)
Great idea, by the way...
Anka Z
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Go, Lake County Captains!