Tom,

That sounds like a very enjoyable visit if I could pull it off. Thank you very much for the invitation.

I may have seen your house because I rubber necked as long as I had a view.

Usually, we are at the airport long enough to gather our luggage, get the rental van and take off to Petoskey. Generally we arrive at TC about 10:00 PM.

We are the plant working 8 or 9 hours and get to the hotel and shower then go eat out then see a movie or watch the idiot tube until we're bored to sleep. Everything we do after hours is by vote because we have one vehicle.

Once, when we were up there for 2 weeks, on our day off we drove up to the Knob Hill ski slope for about an hour, then went back to Petoskey and walked along the beach. All that was nice. I enjoyed the beach and found enough Petoskey Stones to fill a small grocery bag. Boy it was cold! And the wind was a steady 15 or 20 mph.

On our most recent trip, which lasted 4 days, on the way back to the airport we stopped at the beach at TC. This time I found a pocketfull of shells which I brought home. I enjoyed the sandy beach very much too. It wasn't as cold or as windy on the second trip.

The group consisted of about 8 to 12 people for each trip.

I don't know when, or even if anyone from here will be asked to go up there again. Right now we have someone from the Petoskey factory down here.

Anyway, If I do get up that way I'll sure let you know. It would be fun to go fly RC and visit with Don too. If nothing else we can shake hands at the airport and have a nice hot drink. If I come up there in the Summer there would be more time after work with daylight to play in.

I'll look up your e-mail address and put it in my address book.

elad