David Mitchell
Jim,
Okay I'll bite.
I landed on "planet Clintonville" becasue my mom and my dad fell in love at North High School around 1928 - and after a romance followed by a marraige, they decided to Choose Life, and take me home from the hospital and see if my big sisters could stand me. (a similar plight of my trusted ally, one John Jackson)
Later, I transfered to the "High Country" (Colorado) because there was a school that would accept me, and because it was located near of a "family of friends" by the names of Vail, Loveland, Steamboat, Aspen, Arapaho Basin, Keystone, Breckenridge, Copper Mountain, Winter Park, and Telluride. I regret that I have not been amongst them since many fresh powder snows ago.
There were stops along the way in Salzburg, Austria, and one quiet little cottage located conveniently between the banks of the muddy Mekong, and a dusty noisy runway.
Oh, and a return visit to the "Big -C" for 12 years.
But I am down here because a best buddy (from that same little Mekong retreat years ago) offered me a job with his homebuilding operation on Hilton Head, and he gave me (yet another) chance to get my life right side up in Bluffton. (when has it ever been right side up, you may ask?). I have lived in a small rental cottage in a sort of Shangri La location on the May River (Johnny Mercer's "Moon River") for 17 years - at the end of a private dirt, and I have two docks in front of the cottage where we chat and watch dolphins swim by in the evenings (that is, when I am home, and when the breeze keeps the mosquitos at bay). Fall and Winter are gorgeous. Spring can be nice at times. And Summers can get downright brutal!
And our "oystahs", "shreeimp", and "Blue Crayab" are ta die fer!
(Jim, the real reason I landed here is because I was driving South, and I figured I'd better stop well short of Orlando, where all those crazy English Majors live - you know, the ones who don't seem to know their rock & roll music history from their hind ends - and don't even know what "guage" their "American Flyer" was - - - Jeesh!
Gives me the Willys - or the "Wackydoodles")
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