I Think We're Finally Going To Do It

Good to hear, bear, at least it seems good, even energizing.

I'd rather move to Oregon, but we can't go somewhere without some sort of guarantee of at least a little income above and beyond my social security and at Myrtle we're guaranteed the kids will visit :0)

Sounds sensible, what you are planning.

Good luck! We're going up to Tiffin, Ohio in a week to see a house. If it gets too cold, I have family all over the South and South West to stay.

Its always a matter of WHEN up there. I used to have a field ops office nearby (in Findlay) nd it was hard to keep good western miner types up there . Not so much because of the cold but the humidity in the cold. It was a hard sell.

Bear, I guess I missed some posts, are you and Squinney not together anymore? I thought you got back together.
Sorry for being so out of touch but a place where all the golf balls in the universe are dying to be doesn't sound too bad if you hve to have golf in your life. (I like the offshore fishin and the fireworks) I briefly lived in ANderson while we set up an office to serve a fibreglas plant with raw materials

squinney and i are together. I don't golf, but we love the ocean

I love golf but don't like the ocean. Go figure.

How do you feel about the Golf of Mexico?

I hear its easy there to make a hole in Juan.

2/3's of a pun...p.u. . but I laughed like Hell.

Well, I hope everything works out well for you and your family. Sorry to hear you need surgeries, but you can't beat Duke when it comes to hospitals. Good luck with your plans, SC is beautiful, especially Myrtle Beach. Although my knowledge is mainly about the beaches, occasionally I've visited my Aunt in Columbia. But she and my uncle like to take a lot of trips.

Well, we've set a date of moving Nov. 15th. Our daughter's wedding is the 8th.
Squinney is already approved to transfer with her work and I'm spreading my net out for work. By then my back will be back in shape. Stephen is warming up to the idea. Surprisingly our auto insurance is cheaper with better coverage, rents, food, taxes, gas, all cheaper. Extra surprisingly there are more and better services available for the handicapped there, even though SC is a conservative state chock full of rednecks. Health insurance a little higher but not too bad for basically the same coverage and actually better prescription coverage. Although I've been told that M. Beach has turned into a shithole tourist trap I'm aware there are still some nice places to be just out of M. Beach proper, and there are still many things to do that are year round and not just rednecks and drunken tourists. I will probably take a couple of weekday club gigs and then focus all my attention on the destination wedding market. Two of those a month and we will be comfortable as can be. I'm looking forward to actually being semi retired and being in that mode. I don't feel like I can exhale and enjoy myself in Raleigh anymore. I intend to be able to do a lot more thigs with Stephen, and the other kids will always have a place to stay when they come to the beach.

North Myrtle Beach is less revolting than Myrtle Beach proper - actually anything from North Myrtle Beach heading north is pretty decent - lots of good development there.

There are actually a lot of very good doctors practicing in North MB and up - we seem to always be able to find good specialists through the networks there.

We've decided to up our move in date to Dec. 1. That way we'll have Thanksgiving with the kids and Stephen's birthday is the next day. That way he gets birthday with his family both ours and his moms. That should make the move go easier on him and his mother. In addition, our youngest boy Seth is going to take over our apt. lease, so that makes that easier as well.

I think that's terrific, but I'm a little sad about Raleigh, N.C.. It was a one time one of the most forward thinking of all the Southern States. It's sad to see tea bagger mentality talking over. I know that in 1978-79, it still has a quasi-rural feel, but the kids starting at least from my husbands generation got a world class education, and many stayed but many others moved out of state and had very interesting careers. The career part is not the point I'm trying to make, but more so the old farmers who stressed education so their kids didn't have to grow tobacco, they wanted to improve their children's futures but keep strong family values. I have many fond memories of his family members and as well as some hair raising moments when I met my first real John Birch Society member. That was a defining moment for me, I always thought those guys were mythical creatures only in Hollywood movies depicting a racism that never really excited. That was a big bubble busting moment in my life. I also learned what words were really code words, it was different.

In all likelihood, it may not have been better where I grew up, I think I just grew up during a time of transition and was too young to have seen the rock hard belief systems that still existed in the late 70's in people around my parents age. I was stupid.