Mt Vernon .40
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Thanks to all for the warm welcome.
I look forward to meeting everyone soon.
I'm writing from my hotel room in Pittsburgh where an engineering consulting project has kept me busy almost every work-week since early February.
While I've been home most weekends, I can count on one hand the M-F weeks I've actually been in VA since this job started. :?
I completely understand what everybody means about the "west" ... when driving up here I intentionally avoid almost all of the People's Republic of Maryland except for that pesky 1.6 mile stretch of 522 near Hancock.
Yesterday -- after a brief stop @ VA Arms to pick upsome cartridges-- my route to "The Burgh" took me along I-66 and I-81 to Winchester and then up 522 thru Berkeley Springs. (I usually just take 7 from Leesburg to Winchester)
Absolutely beautiful!
I'm descended from a family of pioneers. My grandmother literally lived in a sod dugouton the prairieof Indian Territory (I've got the pic); and I have the shotgun shereceived as apresent when graduating from Oklahoma A&M ! (Stillwater)
So I understand, respect,and envy the culture that you folks are fortunate enough to still enjoy "out there."
Thanks again.
Thanks to all for the warm welcome.
I look forward to meeting everyone soon.
I'm writing from my hotel room in Pittsburgh where an engineering consulting project has kept me busy almost every work-week since early February.
While I've been home most weekends, I can count on one hand the M-F weeks I've actually been in VA since this job started. :?
I completely understand what everybody means about the "west" ... when driving up here I intentionally avoid almost all of the People's Republic of Maryland except for that pesky 1.6 mile stretch of 522 near Hancock.
Yesterday -- after a brief stop @ VA Arms to pick upsome cartridges-- my route to "The Burgh" took me along I-66 and I-81 to Winchester and then up 522 thru Berkeley Springs. (I usually just take 7 from Leesburg to Winchester)
Absolutely beautiful!
I'm descended from a family of pioneers. My grandmother literally lived in a sod dugouton the prairieof Indian Territory (I've got the pic); and I have the shotgun shereceived as apresent when graduating from Oklahoma A&M ! (Stillwater)
So I understand, respect,and envy the culture that you folks are fortunate enough to still enjoy "out there."
Thanks again.