a "new" Utahn

[Mtnbiker]

Hey all, Ian here. Like Treehugger, my new wife and I are from Michigan and have lived here since Feb 05.

First thing: this place rocks!

2nd thing: cool idea for a site, that encompasses all that there is to love about Utah.

3rd thing: Long live long rides!

talk to ya'll soon.

[accadacca]

Welcome Mtnbiker!!! Good to have you. Yes we all bow down to Utah!!! A mecca for all outdoor activities.

[Shan]

Welcome! Utah is the greatest place really. I too am a Midwestern native. Moved out here in '99 from Indiana.

[icthys]

Welcome, while you're here sign up for our fantasy football league, we need 1 more team.

[Sombeech]

Welcome to the site.

[jfeiro]

Hey Mtnbiker what part of Northern Michigan? I'm from Duluth, MN. My moms from Copper Harbor up in the U.P., still have relatives in Escanaba.

[TreeHugger]

Hi Ian!! (It's Karen, didja know??)

I love the way you say "my new wife" on everything!! heehee.

(Ian and Tammy are newlyweds!!)

[derstuka]

Cheboygan, MI, same place I was born and raised. He even knows some of my cousins. Small world!

Welcome Ian!

[Mtnbiker]

Hey Kare - yeah it's exciting!

J - Yep I'm still a troll, we lived under the bridge :) We drove through Escanaba for the first on the way back to UT. That was a nice drive along the lake.
It is definitely a small world though. As Derstuka mentioned we grew up in the same town and know some of the same people, although 4 years apart. I was on business in CA this year and ran into another guy from Cheboygan, whose father worked with my grandfather for many years back in MI - crazy small world!

Utah is a unique place. Probably 90% of the people I've met are transplants, and 50% of those are from Michigan or the midwest. Just somethin' about open skies, killer snow and durrrr, the mountains.

[derstuka]

Is Treehugger (Karen) from Cheboygan as well? If so, we have the makings of a Cheboygan reunion here.

Papa J's was probably closed and turned into that Taco Bell before you graduated I would guess. That was my gang's hangout before a party was found (as well as everybody else's). There are a couple people out here from Cheboygan as well. One of them I knew before I moved out, and one I just ran into--she was 2 years ahead of me. I haven't seen either in many years though.

[TreeHugger]

Nope, I'm from Ann Arbor but my dad and brother live up north in Petoskey so I'm kinda a northerner. :-) Northern Michigan ROCKS!

[DickHead]

Its good to see all these other transplants around here. I moved from Texas about 4 1/2 years ago...I ain't from texas but that was the last place I was.

[Shan]

I have been to Petosky and Ann Arbor

My grandma lives in Three Rivers.

[Mtnbiker]

Petoskey was our big competition in soccer growing up and Ann Arbor was my home for several years. both are awesome places to be!

maybe we need a Michigan forum on this board, eh? :) j/k Utah is way more cooler