> concerned)  We  applaude Joels honesty and political committment.

whoa, now!!! i ain't committed nothing to no politics!! <just as bad
as religions, they always want your money. or your soul!!>

> Hey Joel,,,where do you live.. and are you willing to drive your
Vanagon
> anywhere  for the right match????  sb

oh, yeah.

i live in Tookalooka, Amabala. :) that's in the Southeast portion of
the U.S.A., south of Tennessee, north (i hate that word) of Florida,
east of Mississippi, and west of Jawja. :)  Tookalooka is over on the
western edge. kinda. about 60 miles from the Mississippi state line.
we've got a state university, a community college, a whole bunch of
high schools, two italian restaurants, eight million chinese
restaurants, only four million barbecure restaurants, seven
McDonald's, five auto parts stores, a Mercedes assembly plant (they
assemble the M-Class down here), a Michelin tire plant (no, we don't
get any discounts. and they only make the Uniroyal tires here), a JVC
audio tape plant, and TWO wal-mart superstores. :)
climate is hot in the summer, and cool in the winter. we get about an
inch or so of snow every five to six years, and it lasts about three
days to a week. usually shuts down the entire town (no snow removal).
ain't like when i lived in Chicago at all!!! :)
water is good, but they add chlorine and flouride to it.
traffic isn't soooo bad except from August to December (due to the
college and their football games on the weekends).
we have an airport, but you'll play hell getting anything to land here
and pick you up. most folks drive to Birmingham (60 miles northeast)
to a 'real airport'. some folks drive four hours to Atlanta so they
can get on the big airplanes.
we have a river, The Black Warrior River (named after Chief
Tuskaloosa, of the once-local native tribes), with a lot of tug boats
and barges going hither and yon, but mostly to B'ham steel mills.
one railroad coming in, and one railroad going out. north/south. used
to be one running south to Montgomery, but they pulled up the rails on
that one. it was losing money bigtime. :(  my uncle used to be a
brakeman on that one, back in the steam locomotive days, when i was a
kid.
did i mention we have a mall?? :)  with a Sears AND a JCPennys!

driving?? i thought SHE had a vanagon, too!! sheesh!
oh, well. ok, maybe a couple of hours. i can make it to Tennessee,
Mississippi, and Jawja in about that long. Florida is too far away
:( unless they live up around Pensacola. and that usually means Navy
.... not sure how i'd feel with a 'squid' or 'rustpicker' in the
fambly. ;)
might could meet up at one of the campouts and such.

unca joel