New from Richmond VA.

[PaulRVA]

PaulRVA, I moved to N.C. right out of the Navy, in fact a month or two ahead of my appointed separation to accommodate starting school at UNCG in grad school. I really liked Greensboro a lot and tried to stay there, but my job moved me to the capital, so I located here. I grew up in Illinois, started school at U of I in Chicago, transferred to Missouri for journalism.

So I kicked around for about ten years, must have moved nearly every year. With the Navy spent time in San Diego, the South China Sea, with stops in the Philippines, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. Spent most of my career with a part of the National Institutes of Health in N.C. writing and editing in various roles. Pretty enjoyable, many different assignments and some travel.

I'd always visualized myself as a print journalist or teacher, but those jobs were pretty spotty by the time I returned to civilian life, not just finding them, but advancing. However I was a faculty spouse for more than twenty years. I was a widower for ten years, and then remarried a friend from journalism school in Missouri. An episodic life!

I loved the Philippines.
I could easily be persuaded to move.
The rest of my tours in the Army not so much.
Raleigh is great and Im fond of Durham also.
Last thing I remember in Greensboro was 4 Seasons and Eastgate malls. That was 79 though.

 

[PaulRVA]

Hi and welcome Paul from central England, thunder and lightning and torrential rain here, hope it's good for you.

Hello,
Send some of that over here.
It has been extremely dry and hot.
Glad to hear from you.

 

[Reggie]

Back into pipes after 20 years now that I’m retired.
Huge Ben Wade, Peterson, Ser Jacopo, Castello, Wiley and Tinsky
fan. Just getting into Dunhill’s and Ashton’s.
Cellaring Tobacco building on a tamper collection, learning and re-learning the ropes.

Welcome from Alabama

 

[PaulRVA]

Welcome from Alabama

Hello Reggie,
Thanks.

 

[tobakenist]

Hello,
Send some of that over here.
It has been extremely dry and hot.
Glad to hear from you.

Hot here but humid, more storms might come tonight, glad to hear from you too, happy smoking.

 

[Jbyrd]

Welcome from Missouri

 

[PaulRVA]

Welcome from Missouri

Good morning Jbyrd,

Cardinals and Tigers fan here with deep family ties to St. Louis and Columbia MO.

 

[RustiePyles CPG]

 

[PaulRVA]

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Good morning Kansas.

 

[OverMountain]

Welcome!

 

[PaulRVA]

Welcome!

Thank you

 

[MinnesotaNice]

Welcome from Minnesota

 

[PaulRVA]

Welcome from Minnesota

Thank you!

 

[kcghost]

Welcomer from KC!!

 

[PaulRVA]

Welcomer from KC!!

Thanks KC.

 

[lordnantwich]

Welcome from New England. Enjoy the forums.

 

[dunnyboy]

Welcome from NYC.

 

[PaulRVA]

Welcome from New England. Enjoy the forums.

Thanks !

 

[PaulRVA]

Welcome from NYC.

Thanks!

 

[Briarberg]

Welcome from the Manchester district fellow Richmonder