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Michigan FBGs, I need your assistance (1 Viewer)

It's starting to shape up that I'll only be there for a year, I don't want to get too far ahead of myself but there is a strong possibility that I'll advance next summer and have to move. That said, I now have to make sure that I see everything I want to in the area as I'll have no idea where I'll be ending up next until sometime into early 2018.

 
msudaisy26 said:
It really depends on the local cops. I know when I was younger a lot of my classmates in school had it done and it was real hit or miss on the ones that had to take it off. I also live and grew up roughly 4 hours south of you. I have never heard of a state cop asking anyone to do it, it was always the Oakland County cops that did.
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Michigan State Police(post in Cheboygan) love to pull over tinted vehicles.

) 

 
Foosball God said:
Ah, it will be nice and sticky humid.  Good times.  At least you'll be on the water.
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I don't want to jinx it and I'm in SE Michigan, but I can't ever remember a nicer summer. It's hot, but not too hot. Sunny but hasn't been very humid. We have gotten rain when we have needed it, but almost everyday has been clear. Great weather for hanging outside all day.

 
Ilov80s said:
I don't want to jinx it and I'm in SE Michigan, but I can't ever remember a nicer summer. It's hot, but not too hot. Sunny but hasn't been very humid. We have gotten rain when we have needed it, but almost everyday has been clear. Great weather for hanging outside all day.
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It is our reward for the spring and early summer starting out so bad. 

 
Half way through my drive, currently in bfe Nebraska. Gonna cruise into Des Moines tomorrow and then Chicago on Friday as I've already crushed 1400 miles in 2 days. I figure I'll drive 5 hour days from here on out and actually sightsee.

 
CGRdrJoe said:
Half way through my drive, currently in bfe Nebraska. Gonna cruise into Des Moines tomorrow and then Chicago on Friday as I've already crushed 1400 miles in 2 days. I figure I'll drive 5 hour days from here on out and actually sightsee.
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Safe travels. Happy to have another Michigan FBG :thumbup:

 
Big fan of Michigan in the summer. We go up every year. About 30 of us and rend 5-6 cabins on the west side. Some outstanding spots for long weekends on the west side. Pentwater, Silver Lake, Grand Haven (as already mentioned), South Haven, Holland. So many options. 

We love going there in the summer. The last three days it's been over 100 here in St. Louis. The next 3 days where we are going it will be a high of 69, 77 and 70. In the next 10 days it is only supposed to break 80 twice (80 and 81 on Tue and Wed). I have a goal in life to use the words Winter and Summer as verbs. One day I will summer in Michigan and winter on a beach. 

 
I'm a big fan of the Kalamazoo Beer Exchange. Stock-market themed bar where the beer prices go up and down based on how much they're selling. They have a lot of stuff from local breweries.

 
CGRdrJoe said:
About to enjoy Kalamazoo's breweries! Seems like everyone smokes out here
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Lots of great replies so far. We were just in Kzoo celebrating my daughters 21st B-day and we did the exchange, Bells and the newish Hop Cat. I have been to Hop Cats is Detroit, Royal Oak and Grand Rapids and the Kzoo one is my favorite. 

 
2Young2BBald said:
Lots of great replies so far. We were just in Kzoo celebrating my daughters 21st B-day and we did the exchange, Bells and the newish Hop Cat. I have been to Hop Cats is Detroit, Royal Oak and Grand Rapids and the Kzoo one is my favorite. 
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I haven't been to the Kzoo Hop Cat, might have to check that out. The GR one is great.

 
Grand Haven, MI festival has been a blast. Crazy to see that a whole town is dedicated to the Coast Guard like this, looking forward to several adult beverages tonight.

 
CGRdrJoe said:
Grand Haven, MI festival has been a blast. Crazy to see that a whole town is dedicated to the Coast Guard like this, looking forward to several adult beverages tonight.
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My 20 year old daughter LOVES the CG festival... Me? I try to stay away until it's over..  #crazy

 
Ilov80s said:
Fun. How's it going?
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it was great until we hit sturgeon bay on the 7th and out of the blue my iphone #### the bed. We got back today to MI, so I have an appointment tomorrow for an apple store a few hours away to get a new phone. Tom Izzo was f'n awesome, got a picture with him and a signed hat, we sat and talked for a solid 10 minutes about basketball. I was pretty hammered :bag:

In sturgeon bay I met HOF running back Gerry Ellis, he sang a few songs with a  band that was playing to salute the CG. He was mad cool, we talked for a solid 45 minutes over beers, I think it helped that I kept pulling the lovely ladies that I had met over to get pictures with him! Once again, I was hammered :bag:

Hopefully the pics saved when I tried to back up my phone :rant:  luckily I was able to post the one of me and Izzo and crackbook before the phone died.

 
CGRdrJoe said:
it was great until we hit sturgeon bay on the 7th and out of the blue my iphone #### the bed. We got back today to MI, so I have an appointment tomorrow for an apple store a few hours away to get a new phone. Tom Izzo was f'n awesome, got a picture with him and a signed hat, we sat and talked for a solid 10 minutes about basketball. I was pretty hammered :bag:

In sturgeon bay I met HOF running back Gerry Ellis, he sang a few songs with a  band that was playing to salute the CG. He was mad cool, we talked for a solid 45 minutes over beers, I think it helped that I kept pulling the lovely ladies that I had met over to get pictures with him! Once again, I was hammered :bag:

Hopefully the pics saved when I tried to back up my phone :rant:  luckily I was able to post the one of me and Izzo and crackbook before the phone died.
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Sounds great, I talked to the governor to make sure you had the red carpet rolled out for you. GL with the phone. 

 
mr. furley said:
toss up between Elks Club and VFW for best drinking establishment

the venn diagram is damn near a perfect circle
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Yeah, we never made it to the vfw only 909? Another one that is red around the corner and Flanagan’s. It was a 2 am kind of night.

 
mr. furley said:
toss up between Elks Club and VFW for best drinking establishment

the venn diagram is damn near a perfect circle
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Can't beat the VFW for cheap beer and old people with great stories...

My wedding reception was at our local VFW... a mile away from my house

 
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Doctor Detroit said:
Ok, well I didn't appreciate that. 

My Grandfather is from Oakland, CA and he moved to NE Michigan when he married my Grandmother who is from Alpena, and never returned to NoCal. 

If you aren't going to move your family out there, then just live in Cheyboygan.  It's small town USA, it has a couple of cool bars and a Walmart but it is what it is.  But I will tell you that if you bring your family there in the summer, and you explore the area, you aren't going to leave (at least from April to October). 

Mullet Lake is probably the best inland lake in Michigan, it's 20 minutes from Cheyboygan.  There are million dollar homes out there, it's one of the best fishing lakes in the world, and it's heavenly.  Burt Lake is the sister lake to the west, also stunning and the prices are a little better over there.  30 minutes from work. 

Rogers City is 45 minutes away and it's on Lake Huron like Cheyboygan, lots of pricey homes and a more cosmopolitan up north environment.  Black Lake is 30 minutes away, also a beautiful lake to look for a retirement house or a place to settle down for a few years.  The housing prices on those three lakes aren't going anywhere, people want to live there because it is quite awesome. 

You have access to the Mackinac Bridge, the UP, you are an hour flight from Detroit (though expensive), 1.5 hours from Traverse City, 1.5 flight to Chicago, 1.5 hour flight to Toronto, you are right on Lake Huron which is great, and the people up there are cool.  Winters blow, yes they do and I don't want to live there during winter either but if I had a nice crib on Mullet Lake I'd get through it. 

My woman is from Italy and when I told her I knew a Coastie moving to Cheyboygan she said, "some people have all the luck."  It's not a bad place at all, it's just not anything like a big city.  It's woods, and the best lakes in North America, and small town America.  If you can get used to that then you're gonna love it because it's cheap and quant. 

I'm from the city, live in a bigger city now, and I'd move there in a nanosecond.  You're gonna be pleasantly surprised. 
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I lived in Cheboygan for 23 months, I've now been back in NorCal for just over 2 months and I have to admit I miss Cheboygan so much that I'm already planning a visit back sometime in November. I can see myself living there for half the year when I retire, the cost of living was cheap and the people were some of the best I've met in any town across the US. This thread gave me some great advice, minus @sofakings and my schedules never working out for a mack island cornhole.

 
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