wizofwas added these comments in the current discussion du jour ...

Do you still live in SE Michigan, wiz? If so, where? I'm sure you
know I live in Troy, about 19 miles NNW of the Detroit River. If
you've moved away, where did you live when here and where are you
now? Thanks.

Born and raised in Clarkston, it was a great little town back then.
And I've
also lived in E. Lansing and Grand Blanc. Now I'm in St.
Petersburg, Fla. My one year of sailboat racing, we took 1st in
class (Tartan 10) in the Port Huron to Mackinaw race.

Really?! Help out a lazy Michigander, wiz. Clarkston is north of Lapeer
or NW, I can't remember which. I think the only time I've been there,
and it isn't more than maybe 30 miles from me, is for a couple of
funerals for the father or mother of one of my employees, and then
later when HE suddenly and tragicly dropped dead a few years back after
I'd retired.

And yes, I know where Tory is.

A slip of the digit, methinketh - Troy.

Exit 69 off of I-75 at Big Beaver
Rd. How could I ever forget that exit. I don't know if it's still
there, but I used to try to eat at the A&W there at Big Beaver &
Rochester Rd. when I was working in that area. I had a job as a
computer tech so I got to go to a lot of "job shops" in that area,
as well as most of the LP. And I've also worked over a lot of the
Midwest.

I normally take the Rochester Road exit either way from I-75 but most
often I'm gettin off from the NG side. We live almost on the corner of
Square Lake Road and Livernois, only a block from the old Troy Corners
church which was moved a couple of years ago to the Troy Historical
Museum.

For the benefit of others here - you already know, I suspect - Troy was
originally a small farming village in the early 19th Century. There
were two parts to it, Troy Corners where I'm at, and Big Beaver, about
where Big Beaver Road is today, and - I think - between what is now
Rochester Road and Livernois. Any of you less lazy and better informed
SE Michigan folks that can confirm or dispute my assertion, I'd be
beholdin'!

I've been to Tampa-St. Pete many times. My wife always liked the Gulf
side of Florida for beach vacations than the Atlantic side because the
water is warmer, less windy, nicer scenery, about everything better.
Her fav place was Treasure Island. We also stayed ONCE - never do that
again! - on Sanibel Island some distance south of you. Beaches were
narrow, the place was infested with bugs to the point where one
couldn't stroll the beach after dusk, and restaurants few and far
between.

I did like Florida much better than Souther California but since I'd
never been there, we did take a vacation to the Greater Los Angeles
Area in 1993, stayed in a Holiday in Anaheim, and did all of the
touristy stuff including the San Deigo Zoo. But, the white tigers were
sleeping in the back of their lair that day. Of course, we also had to
find each and every Hard Rock Cafe because me daughter, then not quite
13, was collecting T-shirts. Now she collects their shot glasses and
has a couple of big wall shelfie things.

I'm glad I went to Kalyfornia, but once was enough for me. For the
record ain't no way, Jose, I'd ever fly into LAX, we went into John
Wayne and picked up our car on the property, great way to go.

Thanks for the info!

--
HP, aka Jerry

"If it waddles like a duck and quacks like a duck, it must be a duck"