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(07-12-2017 08:27 PM)Lush Wrote:  
(06-28-2017 07:39 AM)Hood-rich Wrote:  Kennecott. Been there. Stayed in McCarthy, toured the mine and hiked the glacier. It was one of several stops on our honeymoon along that highway. I remember that exact view of the mountains rising above the trees. Damn I love Alaska.

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as awesome as mccarthy was, homer is serene. nothing suits homer more than a quiet blanket of fog. i was surprised at how townie it felt and not very touristy. magnificent hiking. and you gotta camp on the spit
(07-10-2017 06:54 PM)UCGrad1992 Wrote:  A smaller city that I really enjoyed visiting was Marietta, Ohio. Right on the Ohio River/West Virginia border and it was clean, quaint, great walkable downtown, and some American history there as well.

i'm going to get to marietta one of these days. it's been my number one to see city in the state for 10 years running. just haven't made it work. portsmouth is another neat river town. in its' heyday, that would have been a pretty bustling remarkable town. a considerable downtown. rustic. and shawnee state forest is right next door for decent backpacking and great car camping.

i knew that wheeling, west virginia would blow me away. another good river town. by the size of its' downtown, this city could easily accommodate 100,000 people. i've been to charleston and morgantown, wheeling had more of a big city feel. it's on my list of favorite downtowns, duluth is my tits

Ironically, Pony94 is looking at putting a Dairy Whip in Marietta.
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(07-12-2017 04:18 PM)colohank Wrote:  Those are some nice hills, for sure, but we've got mountains out here that are almost two miles higher in elevation than Mt. Mitchell. Imagine 54 peaks that are 14,000 or more above sea level, and another 900 or so above 13,000 feet.

I'm lucky. A twenty-minute walk from my house gets me to the boundary of a national monument and adjacent national conservation area that total about 100,000 acres. A mile and half drive the other way gets me to a Kroger store.

Don't undersell yourself, hank. Just a few miles to the east gets you to a handful of wineries and some of the sweetest peaches this side of Georgia. A few miles to the west, and you can hop on a mountain bike and ramble all the way to Moab. Do a fellow Bearcat and former Coloradoan a favor, and toss some Olathe Sweet Corn into a box with Palisade Peaches and some chiles this summer and ship 'em on over to Oregon, would you?

i've wanted to live out west for such a long time but i was never going to do anything about it. even though i've been out there numerous times and will continue, it remains for me the fabled land tierra del mysterio. i'm forced to seek out the virtues of my adopted soil because why not man, why not? it humbles me to accept a network of army corp of engineer lakes in place of actual nature. amish country is a weekend escape. someone in the parking lot couldn't tell you you were standing on the tallest peak in the state. cleveland. but i'm not complaining, i'm not complaining at all. i'm even writing a poem about this very topic just this moment

i'll probably die in ohio
on the banks of the mighty river
swiftly heading west

i've been taken
to foreign lands
and they deposit me in the sand
on the banks of the mighty river
swiftly heading west
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(07-12-2017 08:34 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  
(07-12-2017 08:27 PM)Lush Wrote:  
(06-28-2017 07:39 AM)Hood-rich Wrote:  Kennecott. Been there. Stayed in McCarthy, toured the mine and hiked the glacier. It was one of several stops on our honeymoon along that highway. I remember that exact view of the mountains rising above the trees. Damn I love Alaska.

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as awesome as mccarthy was, homer is serene. nothing suits homer more than a quiet blanket of fog. i was surprised at how townie it felt and not very touristy. magnificent hiking. and you gotta camp on the spit
(07-10-2017 06:54 PM)UCGrad1992 Wrote:  A smaller city that I really enjoyed visiting was Marietta, Ohio. Right on the Ohio River/West Virginia border and it was clean, quaint, great walkable downtown, and some American history there as well.

i'm going to get to marietta one of these days. it's been my number one to see city in the state for 10 years running. just haven't made it work. portsmouth is another neat river town. in its' heyday, that would have been a pretty bustling remarkable town. a considerable downtown. rustic. and shawnee state forest is right next door for decent backpacking and great car camping.

i knew that wheeling, west virginia would blow me away. another good river town. by the size of its' downtown, this city could easily accommodate 100,000 people. i've been to charleston and morgantown, wheeling had more of a big city feel. it's on my list of favorite downtowns, duluth is my tits

Ironically, Pony94 is looking at putting a Dairy Whip in Marietta.

isn't that more of a coincidence?
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(07-12-2017 08:59 PM)Lush Wrote:  
(07-12-2017 08:34 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  
(07-12-2017 08:27 PM)Lush Wrote:  
(06-28-2017 07:39 AM)Hood-rich Wrote:  Kennecott. Been there. Stayed in McCarthy, toured the mine and hiked the glacier. It was one of several stops on our honeymoon along that highway. I remember that exact view of the mountains rising above the trees. Damn I love Alaska.

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as awesome as mccarthy was, homer is serene. nothing suits homer more than a quiet blanket of fog. i was surprised at how townie it felt and not very touristy. magnificent hiking. and you gotta camp on the spit
(07-10-2017 06:54 PM)UCGrad1992 Wrote:  A smaller city that I really enjoyed visiting was Marietta, Ohio. Right on the Ohio River/West Virginia border and it was clean, quaint, great walkable downtown, and some American history there as well.

i'm going to get to marietta one of these days. it's been my number one to see city in the state for 10 years running. just haven't made it work. portsmouth is another neat river town. in its' heyday, that would have been a pretty bustling remarkable town. a considerable downtown. rustic. and shawnee state forest is right next door for decent backpacking and great car camping.

i knew that wheeling, west virginia would blow me away. another good river town. by the size of its' downtown, this city could easily accommodate 100,000 people. i've been to charleston and morgantown, wheeling had more of a big city feel. it's on my list of favorite downtowns, duluth is my tits

Ironically, Pony94 is looking at putting a Dairy Whip in Marietta.

isn't that more of a coincidence?

its either...from a certain point of view

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(07-12-2017 08:54 PM)Pony94 Wrote:  Transferring you to be the assistant to the assistant's assistant

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(07-12-2017 08:54 PM)Pony94 Wrote:  Transferring you to be the assistant to the assistant's assistant

You are just trying to keep me from Joeline but it won't work...she loves me.


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(07-12-2017 09:02 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  
(07-12-2017 08:59 PM)Lush Wrote:  
(07-12-2017 08:34 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  
(07-12-2017 08:27 PM)Lush Wrote:  
(06-28-2017 07:39 AM)Hood-rich Wrote:  Kennecott. Been there. Stayed in McCarthy, toured the mine and hiked the glacier. It was one of several stops on our honeymoon along that highway. I remember that exact view of the mountains rising above the trees. Damn I love Alaska.

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as awesome as mccarthy was, homer is serene. nothing suits homer more than a quiet blanket of fog. i was surprised at how townie it felt and not very touristy. magnificent hiking. and you gotta camp on the spit
(07-10-2017 06:54 PM)UCGrad1992 Wrote:  A smaller city that I really enjoyed visiting was Marietta, Ohio. Right on the Ohio River/West Virginia border and it was clean, quaint, great walkable downtown, and some American history there as well.

i'm going to get to marietta one of these days. it's been my number one to see city in the state for 10 years running. just haven't made it work. portsmouth is another neat river town. in its' heyday, that would have been a pretty bustling remarkable town. a considerable downtown. rustic. and shawnee state forest is right next door for decent backpacking and great car camping.

i knew that wheeling, west virginia would blow me away. another good river town. by the size of its' downtown, this city could easily accommodate 100,000 people. i've been to charleston and morgantown, wheeling had more of a big city feel. it's on my list of favorite downtowns, duluth is my tits

Ironically, Pony94 is looking at putting a Dairy Whip in Marietta.

isn't that more of a coincidence?

its either...from a certain point of view

if you wanna go deep, let's go

from a certain point of view it can be only one thing. right or wrong. you don't even evoke the potter stewart clause i know it when i see it which i often utilize in these situations. your dairy whip in marietta is a coincidence. but it's just words
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(07-12-2017 09:32 PM)Lush Wrote:  
(07-12-2017 09:02 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  
(07-12-2017 08:59 PM)Lush Wrote:  
(07-12-2017 08:34 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  
(07-12-2017 08:27 PM)Lush Wrote:  as awesome as mccarthy was, homer is serene. nothing suits homer more than a quiet blanket of fog. i was surprised at how townie it felt and not very touristy. magnificent hiking. and you gotta camp on the spit

i'm going to get to marietta one of these days. it's been my number one to see city in the state for 10 years running. just haven't made it work. portsmouth is another neat river town. in its' heyday, that would have been a pretty bustling remarkable town. a considerable downtown. rustic. and shawnee state forest is right next door for decent backpacking and great car camping.

i knew that wheeling, west virginia would blow me away. another good river town. by the size of its' downtown, this city could easily accommodate 100,000 people. i've been to charleston and morgantown, wheeling had more of a big city feel. it's on my list of favorite downtowns, duluth is my tits

Ironically, Pony94 is looking at putting a Dairy Whip in Marietta.

isn't that more of a coincidence?

its either...from a certain point of view

if you wanna go deep, let's go

from a certain point of view it can be only one thing. right or wrong. you don't even evoke the potter stewart clause i know it when i see it which i often utilize in these situations. your dairy whip in marietta is a coincidence. but it's just words

wrong

I was just talking about Marietta with Pony a day ago and so it is ironic that this was posted by another person

suck that
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(07-12-2017 09:34 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  
(07-12-2017 09:32 PM)Lush Wrote:  
(07-12-2017 09:02 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  
(07-12-2017 08:59 PM)Lush Wrote:  
(07-12-2017 08:34 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  Ironically, Pony94 is looking at putting a Dairy Whip in Marietta.

isn't that more of a coincidence?

its either...from a certain point of view

if you wanna go deep, let's go

from a certain point of view it can be only one thing. right or wrong. you don't even evoke the potter stewart clause i know it when i see it which i often utilize in these situations. your dairy whip in marietta is a coincidence. but it's just words

wrong

I was just talking about Marietta with Pony a day ago and so it is ironic that this was posted by another person

suck that

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(07-12-2017 09:38 PM)Lush Wrote:  
(07-12-2017 09:34 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  
(07-12-2017 09:32 PM)Lush Wrote:  
(07-12-2017 09:02 PM)Bearcats#1 Wrote:  
(07-12-2017 08:59 PM)Lush Wrote:  isn't that more of a coincidence?

its either...from a certain point of view

if you wanna go deep, let's go

from a certain point of view it can be only one thing. right or wrong. you don't even evoke the potter stewart clause i know it when i see it which i often utilize in these situations. your dairy whip in marietta is a coincidence. but it's just words

wrong

I was just talking about Marietta with Pony a day ago and so it is ironic that this was posted by another person

suck that

well i'm glad you found a hobby

eh I got nothin'....im making all this up. You are probably right.
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(07-12-2017 04:18 PM)colohank Wrote:  Those are some nice hills, for sure, but we've got mountains out here that are almost two miles higher in elevation than Mt. Mitchell. Imagine 54 peaks that are 14,000 or more above sea level, and another 900 or so above 13,000 feet.

I'm lucky. A twenty-minute walk from my house gets me to the boundary of a national monument and adjacent national conservation area that total about 100,000 acres. A mile and half drive the other way gets me to a Kroger store.

Don't undersell yourself, hank. Just a few miles to the east gets you to a handful of wineries and some of the sweetest peaches this side of Georgia. A few miles to the west, and you can hop on a mountain bike and ramble all the way to Moab. Do a fellow Bearcat and former Coloradoan a favor, and toss some Olathe Sweet Corn into a box with Palisade Peaches and some chiles this summer and ship 'em on over to Oregon, would you?

Yep, my next-door neighbor's boyfriend, a pharmacist who owns an orchard at the base of the monument, stopped by the house yesterday and dropped off a box of freestones. Peach pie for dessert! We're looking forward to Olathe Sweet in a few weeks (In past years, Kroger has bought the entire crop and shipped it to all of their stores and affiliates). And not only wine, but a number of local brew-pubs.
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(07-12-2017 10:04 AM)ECUGrad07 Wrote:  You Texas/NM folks have nothing on the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. 05-stirthepot

[Image: Smokies.jpg]
[Image: river-of-fog-great-smoky-mountains-natio...0x1080.jpg]
[Image: blue-ridge-highway.jpg]
[Image: 2016-07-23_grandfather-mountain_swinging...k-view.jpg]
[Image: chimneyrock.jpg]


Asheville, NC
[Image: asheville-skyline(webonly)-sz.jpg]

Boone, NC
[Image: obm_mountains_carousel.jpg]

Lake Lure, NC
[Image: kayak.jpg]

Those are some nice hills, for sure, but we've got mountains out here that are almost two miles higher in elevation than Mt. Mitchell. Imagine 54 peaks that are 14,000 or more above sea level, and another 900 or so above 13,000 feet.

I'm lucky. A twenty-minute walk from my house gets me to the boundary of a national monument and adjacent national conservation area that total about 100,000 acres. A mile and half drive the other way gets me to a Kroger store.
Yeah, they're bigger out there but IMHO they aren't as beautiful. Bigger=/ Better. Something just doesn't seem right about not having trees covering them. Those fall days on the Blue Ridge are a sight to bwhold.

On the other hand Colorado weather is way, way better, especially in summer. My wife and I are considering moving out there after our parents pass. They're basically what's keeping us in NC. Don't get me wrong I love them all.

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(07-12-2017 11:26 PM)Hood-rich Wrote:  
(07-12-2017 04:18 PM)colohank Wrote:  
(07-12-2017 10:04 AM)ECUGrad07 Wrote:  You Texas/NM folks have nothing on the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. 05-stirthepot

[Image: Smokies.jpg]
[Image: river-of-fog-great-smoky-mountains-natio...0x1080.jpg]
[Image: blue-ridge-highway.jpg]
[Image: 2016-07-23_grandfather-mountain_swinging...k-view.jpg]
[Image: chimneyrock.jpg]


Asheville, NC
[Image: asheville-skyline(webonly)-sz.jpg]

Boone, NC
[Image: obm_mountains_carousel.jpg]

Lake Lure, NC
[Image: kayak.jpg]

Those are some nice hills, for sure, but we've got mountains out here that are almost two miles higher in elevation than Mt. Mitchell. Imagine 54 peaks that are 14,000 or more above sea level, and another 900 or so above 13,000 feet.

I'm lucky. A twenty-minute walk from my house gets me to the boundary of a national monument and adjacent national conservation area that total about 100,000 acres. A mile and half drive the other way gets me to a Kroger store.
Yeah, they're bigger out there but IMHO they aren't as beautiful. Bigger=/ Better. Something just doesn't seem right about not having trees covering them. Those fall days on the Blue Ridge are a sight to bwhold.

On the other hand Colorado weather is way, way better, especially in summer. My wife and I are considering moving out there after our parents pass. They're basically what's keeping us in NC. Don't get me wrong I love them all.

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Our mountains have trees at lower elevations, so we have choices. This a simplification, because the environment is more diverse, but at 6,000 feet, Douglas Fir and, where I live, Pinon Pine. At 7,000 feet, Ponderosa Pine. At 8,000-9,000 feet, Aspen groves (glorious in the fall). A bit higher, Subalpine Fir and Englemann Spruce. Above 12,000 feet or so, rock. Please don't misinterpret my remarks about the Smokys and the Blue Ridge. I spent childhood summers in western NC, near Brevard. Loved the scenery and that wonderful Biltmore ice cream. I also recall a stream on Mt. Pisgah where the water flowed 50 yards or so over a sloping sluiceway of water-polished rock. We'd sew washcloths on the seats of our bathing suits so abrasion wouldn't wear holes in them and ride the swift current down into an impossibly cold plunge basin. Rinse and repeat. Bare Rock Slide, we called it. I wonder if it's still pristine or if it's been trashed by overuse?

I live just south of the Colorado River near Fruita, CO, about halfway between town and Colorado National Monument. Consult Google Earth or a Rand McNally Road Atlas and note how open and undeveloped it is around where I live, tens of miles in just about every direction. A mile isn't any longer here than back east, but we seem to have a lot more of them -- lots of "in-between" is what appeals to me. To quote Aldo Leopold, "Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?"
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(07-13-2017 08:44 AM)colohank Wrote:  
(07-12-2017 11:26 PM)Hood-rich Wrote:  
(07-12-2017 04:18 PM)colohank Wrote:  
(07-12-2017 10:04 AM)ECUGrad07 Wrote:  You Texas/NM folks have nothing on the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. 05-stirthepot

[Image: Smokies.jpg]
[Image: river-of-fog-great-smoky-mountains-natio...0x1080.jpg]
[Image: blue-ridge-highway.jpg]
[Image: 2016-07-23_grandfather-mountain_swinging...k-view.jpg]
[Image: chimneyrock.jpg]


Asheville, NC
[Image: asheville-skyline(webonly)-sz.jpg]

Boone, NC
[Image: obm_mountains_carousel.jpg]

Lake Lure, NC
[Image: kayak.jpg]

Those are some nice hills, for sure, but we've got mountains out here that are almost two miles higher in elevation than Mt. Mitchell. Imagine 54 peaks that are 14,000 or more above sea level, and another 900 or so above 13,000 feet.

I'm lucky. A twenty-minute walk from my house gets me to the boundary of a national monument and adjacent national conservation area that total about 100,000 acres. A mile and half drive the other way gets me to a Kroger store.
Yeah, they're bigger out there but IMHO they aren't as beautiful. Bigger=/ Better. Something just doesn't seem right about not having trees covering them. Those fall days on the Blue Ridge are a sight to bwhold.

On the other hand Colorado weather is way, way better, especially in summer. My wife and I are considering moving out there after our parents pass. They're basically what's keeping us in NC. Don't get me wrong I love them all.

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Our mountains have trees at lower elevations, so we have choices. This a simplification, because the environment is more diverse, but at 6,000 feet, Douglas Fir and, where I live, Pinon Pine. At 7,000 feet, Ponderosa Pine. At 8,000-9,000 feet, Aspen groves (glorious in the fall). A bit higher, Subalpine Fir and Englemann Spruce. Above 12,000 feet or so, rock. Please don't misinterpret my remarks about the Smokys and the Blue Ridge. I spent childhood summers in western NC, near Brevard. Loved the scenery and that wonderful Biltmore ice cream. I also recall a stream on Mt. Pisgah where the water flowed 50 yards or so over a sloping sluiceway of water-polished rock. We'd sew washcloths on the seats of our bathing suits so abrasion wouldn't wear holes in them and ride the swift current down into an impossibly cold plunge basin. Rinse and repeat. Bare Rock Slide, we called it. I wonder if it's still pristine or if it's been trashed by overuse?

I live just south of the Colorado River near Fruita, CO, about halfway between town and Colorado National Monument. Consult Google Earth or a Rand McNally Road Atlas and note how open and undeveloped it is around where I live, tens of miles in just about every direction. A mile isn't any longer here than back east, but we seem to have a lot more of them -- lots of "in-between" is what appeals to me. To quote Aldo Leopold, "Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?"

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(07-13-2017 08:44 AM)colohank Wrote:  I live just south of the Colorado River near Fruita, CO, about halfway between town and Colorado National Monument. Consult Google Earth or a Rand McNally Road Atlas and note how open and undeveloped it is around where I live, tens of miles in just about every direction. A mile isn't any longer here than back east, but we seem to have a lot more of them -- lots of "in-between" is what appeals to me. To quote Aldo Leopold, "Of what avail are forty freedoms without a blank spot on the map?"

What do you do for a living out there?
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RE: favorite US city to visit
(07-12-2017 02:21 PM)DownOnRohs Wrote:  
(07-12-2017 01:46 PM)isidnirb Wrote:  
(07-12-2017 01:24 PM)MJG Wrote:  
(07-12-2017 01:03 PM)Boca Rocket Wrote:  Traverse City, Michigan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0DuFujGCswU
No better place in the Summer

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You need to venture out more for your summers.

There is a reason everyone in the north travels south for Spring Break, Summer vacation and Fall breaks. From the Outer Banks, to Charleston, Savannah, Destin, etc. Then check out all the visitor license plates.

The reason is those places during spring and fall breaks have weather similar to northern summers.

Have you ECU guys been to Lake Michigan in the summer? 90 degrees and humid isn't everyone's ideal late-July day.

You guys live for 4 months of the year (Summer)...the rest is grey and overcast. I know, from NJ and have been working in OH. Down south we are wearing shorts in early November. Win.
07-13-2017 09:39 AM
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RE: favorite US city to visit
(07-12-2017 11:26 PM)Hood-rich Wrote:  
(07-12-2017 04:18 PM)colohank Wrote:  
(07-12-2017 10:04 AM)ECUGrad07 Wrote:  You Texas/NM folks have nothing on the Blue Ridge Mountains and the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina. 05-stirthepot

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Asheville, NC
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Boone, NC
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Lake Lure, NC
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Those are some nice hills, for sure, but we've got mountains out here that are almost two miles higher in elevation than Mt. Mitchell. Imagine 54 peaks that are 14,000 or more above sea level, and another 900 or so above 13,000 feet.

I'm lucky. A twenty-minute walk from my house gets me to the boundary of a national monument and adjacent national conservation area that total about 100,000 acres. A mile and half drive the other way gets me to a Kroger store.
Yeah, they're bigger out there but IMHO they aren't as beautiful. Bigger=/ Better. Something just doesn't seem right about not having trees covering them. Those fall days on the Blue Ridge are a sight to bwhold.

On the other hand Colorado weather is way, way better, especially in summer. My wife and I are considering moving out there after our parents pass. They're basically what's keeping us in NC. Don't get me wrong I love them all.

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Gotta agree, Colorado summers are pretty sweet.
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