Thread: Northern Memories.......missing home bad now.

So I was talkin with another member from Canada. I am from Northwestern lower Michigan. We started talking about things Northern Michigan and I just got a little bit of sadness in my heart.Everyone has a place to call home and remembers what they liked or missed about it. For me it was so many things. We mentioned the Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald in Lake Superior. That was a big deal when I was a teen. We had a maritime academy in my home town where Merchant Marines trained. I miss the Great lakes terribly. I miss Morel mushroom hunting in the spring(I still remember the smell of fresh Morels in the woods after a rain. I miss the blazing brilliant red and orange and purple fall colors. The wines and cherries from Old mission .I really do miss the frosty winters and cross country skiing. My first car was a 40 horse inboard/outboard boat and I still love the smell of fish and 2 stroke engine fuel on the lake. Lab dogs rolling in dead fish on the beach...smelt fishing and fish fries with coleslaw and steak fries. The Mackinaw Bridge(Big Mac) and Mackinaw Island. The Northern Lights God so beautiful. Crickets and lighting bugs. Maples,Birch and Oak trees. Canoeing..oh how I miss canoeing. Keg parties in the deep woods . I'm dying here...simply dying. People think I'm weird cause I love cold wintery and scottish like weather...it's because I'm a child of the North that I am this way.So....If you're from Michigan,Canada,Minnesota,Wisconsin anywhere from the Great Lakes area or wooly North....what do you miss/remember ?!

Nightblade,

I'm not from as far north, but miss real winter and (here's where folks move away from me and avoid eye contact) I miss humidity. Living out here in the high desert just doesn't do it for me. I miss the charismatic megainsects that damage your screens at night, thunderheads 60,000 feet high, bright green on the landscape. I long for the limestone-rich landscape of the Mississippi and Wisconsin River valleys. I miss leaving town and driving through food, dozens and dozens of miles of food, before reaching the next town. My eyes go watery at the smell of hog manure. Oh, wait, everybody's eyes go watery at the smell of hog manure, and they roll up the windows and accelerate.

Folks think Colorado is one of America's paradises, and I suppose it is (especially if you can afford to live in one of the nice bits). But for me, it's got nothing on northeast Iowa.

See you at the Denver meetup? We can hoist one to our true homes.

Best wishes

Dude ....I'm am right there with ya on the humidity....Gawd...I feel like one gigantic dry skin flake out here. and no tissue in the world can save my nose or sinuses.Ditto on the manure cept fer me it's cow. Go fig huh. I'm gonna try to make it to the meetup. I don't drive though so I gotta figure out how to get there and how much time to spend at it. I've never gone to one so I don't know how it's done? I.e. do ya go for one day a week buy a ticket rent a hotel ?? Glen gave me the link but I'm still trying to figure it all out. Midwestern states are welcome here too cause the Midwest is the best my Brother !

I'll be driving in from GJ on Saturday and probably staying with Mjhammer in, um, wherever he lives. Wheatridge, I think. The meetup is Sunday late morning/early afternoon, then I have to return to Junction.Chime in on the meetup thread and I bet one of us can give you a ride. If you're more or less on my way in & out, it can be me.

Best wishes

Huston ...you're breaking up please say again .....over

I live where I grew up, literally, in the house I called home is now my home. I keep in contact with friends that have gone the ways of the winds and I post pictures of home town. They always love to see them, but I wanna see somewhere else. I've asked a couple of times, but is there a place I can go to find out a list of meetups of shaver's?? My schedule just cleared up a bit, I've been waiting to go to the doctor for two months, and did that today. Other than camping this weekend, I'm free till around September, minus a day or two. Have gun will travel. Any way, I've wanted to get up North, it looks crisp and clean. Heck, I just saw mention of a meetup thread, what would that be under?
later, donv

BTW, I'm just a little bit South of Saskatoon, kinda like 1585 miles South by West in Gridley CA!

nightblade, i have lived in so many different parts of this country i can't tell which one i call home any more. have finally been able to put away my gypsy wagon and settle down in one place for more than 3or 4 years now. so i would have to consider this home. when i went into the navy, i couldn't wait to get out of west Virginia, but i was young. i have lived in OK, CA, PA, AK, VA, oh and WA, some of those were while i was in the navy some were not, but i keep coming back here. every one of those places has things i miss greatly, and they all have things i despised deeply. but only vallhalla will have all the good with none of the bad, so we must endure.

donv, I think it was your post that gave me the idea to update my sig line. Meetups are great, worth the price of a motel and a long drive if that's what it takes to get you to one.

wvloony--do you think it's true that in Valhalla beautiful maidens make your lather for you? That's what I've heard. With blonde brushes.

I miss the quiet of a good snowfall... I miss people who watch junior hockey on New Years eve. But most of all, I miss the woods and the sight of evergreens everywhere.

I miss having my nearest neighbour being 2 mountains away, Kokanee beer (the blue and white!), the wildlife -- except for moose in rutting season -- and the view from my mountain home. Sunrises were SPECTACULAR!