Hello to my fellow pipe smokers. I'm located in Southeastern Lower Michigan, north of Ann Arbor in Hamburg Township.
I've been posting for a couple months now, but thought I should come back here to the Introductions forum and do it right.
I'm just getting back into smoking a pipe after smoking mainly cigars for the past 20 years.
My first motivation to smoke a pipe can be traced back to reading Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as a kid. Those kids were always smoking a pipe, and interestingly, pipes they made themselves. My first pipe was one I made out of hickory when I was 16, stuffed with Amphora from my dad's can in the livingroom.
I smoked a pipe all through college, but switched to cigars mainly because they're a little more portable and self-contained than a pipe/pouch/tool setup, and cigars were easier to handle during active outside pursuits.
But lately, I wanted some variety over the cigar tobacco experience, so, I'm rediscovering pipe smoking.
In my youth, I smoked the OTCs which were most available in rural New York where I grew up, so I didn't have much experience with the huge variety of blends I have access to now. So, I'm finding I like them all- aromatics, English/Balkan blends, and burleys and Virginias.
And I'm really liking the codger blends I grew up on. Finally, I'm old enough to smoke a codger as a codger.
I've been posting for a couple months now, but thought I should come back here to the Introductions forum and do it right.
I'm just getting back into smoking a pipe after smoking mainly cigars for the past 20 years.
My first motivation to smoke a pipe can be traced back to reading Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn as a kid. Those kids were always smoking a pipe, and interestingly, pipes they made themselves. My first pipe was one I made out of hickory when I was 16, stuffed with Amphora from my dad's can in the livingroom.
I smoked a pipe all through college, but switched to cigars mainly because they're a little more portable and self-contained than a pipe/pouch/tool setup, and cigars were easier to handle during active outside pursuits.
But lately, I wanted some variety over the cigar tobacco experience, so, I'm rediscovering pipe smoking.
In my youth, I smoked the OTCs which were most available in rural New York where I grew up, so I didn't have much experience with the huge variety of blends I have access to now. So, I'm finding I like them all- aromatics, English/Balkan blends, and burleys and Virginias.
And I'm really liking the codger blends I grew up on. Finally, I'm old enough to smoke a codger as a codger.
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