this stuff is great. i used to ride by that little park on 5th every day on my way to school. played hookey there once or twice. on your paddle, you passed under two little cement bridges where my grandparents used to take me fishing when i was a little tyke. i also used to fish there with my son when he was really small. my uncle used to own a pizza restaurant in hudson. it was called varga's pizza. that was before your time but perhaps your parents remember? mid 70's iirc.
i studied aviation at western mich. was one of the last to graduate before the program moved to battle creek. i spent 3 years as a bag tosser/ticket agent for northwest airlines there in kazoo. also worked as a salesmen at norman camera and some time served as an assistant manager of one of the video watch vhs rental stores.
all of my crazy travels have done a lot to shape me as well. i lived in american samoa for a year when i graduated college. my first flying job. that was a culture shock of epic proportions. it was a pretty lonely year being that far from home. i sure learned a lot myself and about mental fortitude in that year.
its kinda like when your parents would send you off to summer camp when you were a kid. when you came home, everything seemed different. after a while, you realize that the only thing that is different is you. i always used to like dating women from other countries/cultures when i was in college. its amazing how much that will change your perspective too.
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This is awesome possum.
I'll do this some day. Been feeling Forest Gump-y lately.Leave a comment:
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Native Detroiter, moved to Grand Rapids to finish school and landed my first job out of college in Holland. Lived in Grand Haven for a while. I moved out of MI in '03 and have lived on both coasts. Moved back to the east coast last year.
Jake- besides the accomplishment of making a trip like this, it provides some perspective you will carry for a long, long time. Every cross-country drive for me has been different, but the experience and people I met doing them always gave me food for thought for my direction in life. It also removed a lot of the fear of taking a new position in part of the country I had never lived. I think that has also applied to my international travels too.Leave a comment:
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Yeah I know Center well, I graduated from North West in 99, but I moved in H/S I actually grew up in jonesville and my class there was 88 iirc. Matter of fact I did a Kayak paddle from center lake put in there at the 5th street park to the park at Little Wolf lake last spring when I was in town visiting friends. If you spent much time in center, I venture to guess we know some of the same people.....
I think we have eaten at Grizzly Peak before, we ate at Creek Side Bar and Grill a lot out on jackson rd just west of Zeeb and West Side Grill a lot.
Wow small internetLast edited by mrsleeve; 07-27-2013, 07:18 PM.Leave a comment:
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sweet. one of my favorite places to hang out is the grizly peak brewery. i was born on the east side of jackson. michigan center if that means anything to you. if you played sports, i think hillsdale was a class d school if i remember right. mine was class c. i graduated h.s. with 95 other people if you could imagine a class that small. here in texas, the average graduating class is about 12-1600 kids.Last edited by flyboyx; 07-27-2013, 07:09 PM.Leave a comment:
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No shit. I was born in K-zoo, raised in a little town 1/2 hour south of Jackson in Hillsdale county and for the last 10 years I lived in the state an actual stones throw form the eastern Washtenaw county line outside of Waterloo. I know A2 well, we did most of our business there or in Chelsea rather than go the other wayLeave a comment:
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sorry my dyslexia kicks my ass some times............................ Tucson is pronounced just like it should be. I was not asking jake about tucson I was asking him about Houghton. Since he lives in a town in the northern U.P. of Michigan that bears the same name. I got the joke about the "lol" above the picture of the road sign that says 5 miles to Houghton when hes a solid 2000 miles from home. Since I am originally from MI, and much of the little woman's family is also from Houghton MI, and my mother and brother live in Tucson I am very well versed in your horrid pronunciation as a city of such a simple word.
Houghton when you use the queens English is Hough-ton if your having issues sounding that out. A more phonetic pronunciation is hoe-tonLast edited by mrsleeve; 07-27-2013, 01:10 PM.Leave a comment:
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As a true child of the 80's you would have also noted this movie.
And, was that Pinnacle Peak in San Dimas? Did you make it by the sights from Bill & Ted's as well while you were there?Leave a comment:
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Honestly, I have no idea what the trip did for me. Did it cure an ailment? Dunno, but I still can't believe I did what I did.
Maayyyybbbeeeee
No, it was like 3 am. Did not get to hear anyone say Tucson. Nor Houghton. However! I did meet a gal on my Travels that lived in Houghton Iowa. And she pronounced it "Huff-ton"
She had the type of voice where you just wanted to grab a ball gag to shut her up.... She probably would've liked it too.Last edited by TurboJake; 07-27-2013, 02:32 PM.Leave a comment:
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HAHAHA
Jake did you stick around in Tuscon long enough to learn how to pronounce that "correctly" down there ????
They slaughter Houghton down there, they call it How-ton. I think you took that pic not all that far from my brothers house (prolly 4-5 miles give or take)Last edited by mrsleeve; 07-27-2013, 10:47 AM.Leave a comment:
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That's great you went to bisbee. We went there a few years ago. Did you happen to have a drink at the stock exchange? Good stuff man good stuffLeave a comment:
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