Where you live

[Margie-Rex's Mom]

I lived in New York City (the burrough of Brooklyn) for 5 years. Yes, Tracy, Manhattan is one of the burroughs of the city. New York City is really closer to New Jersey than the state of New York, as it is a collection of islands off the very tip of the lowest point in the state.

Here's a map that might help show the difference from New York City and New Jersey. It is confusing..

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I realized I never posted a map for Vermont. If you look at the state in this map, see Burlington and the route number 89. follow that up halfway to the Canadian border and you find where I live!

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[Deerie me]

That's brilliant Margie. Thank you. It's all clear. Having a map really does help. There are a lot of DPers in a relatively small area in the north east aren't there?

[Margie-Rex's Mom]

You are welcome! And there are a few of us in the Northeast. Getting from my place to Boston area where Kristen is is about a 5 hour drive, and to New York City is 7 hours. However, if you take the train it is 12 hours. American rail systems are nothing like European trains.

[Deerie me]

Yes, it's all relative. We Brits don't have the same concept of distance.

American trains look cooler!

[Sadie G]

And Manhattan is an area of New York City isn't it?

Lizanne lives in that area somewhere doesn't she?

If I remember right Lizanne lives more north in New York state, closer to the lake. I do remember she posted at one time about being just across the lake from Deb.

[RubyJeansMom]

Margie, I never realized you lived so close to Canada.

[Margie-Rex's Mom]

RJM, I'm about 20 miles south of the Canadian border and a little less than a 2 hour drive to Montreal.

[Oliver & Henry's Mum]

Lizanne - Elizabeth lives in the middle of New York State, roughly. She would be 5 hours from me, at least, but shorter if we could cross Lake Ontario.

Margie you are so relatively close to where I used to live. I was half way between Ottawa and Montreal, and I also lived in Ottawa for 3 years, and Montreal for 7 months. Now I am 7 to 8 hours away from Ottawa and Montreal, respectively.

South Carolina is one of my "must see" destinations. I wish to visit Charleston. Myrtle Beach is known for its Golf Courses and music scene.

There are quite a few of us members located around the Great Lakes and the Eastern Seaboard, and all points in between.

[Phyrie]

Phyrie do you have picture of the "flower rock"? Sounds very pretty and unique to the island. I could wander that beachline for a very long time, so pretty.

Sorry, I didn't see your question. I've been busy the last few days, and have fallen behind, again!

Here's a pic of an Inukshuk made of flower rock. We've been told this stone is found only here, although I find that hard to believe!

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There IS a fish here that is found no where else on Earth, though! It's a kind of stickleback, found only in the flooded quarry known as Heichelt Lake. Every year scientists and students from various universities come up here and study this little fish. I don't know what they're studying, but I suppose it being unique to that one lake makes it noteworthy, at least in some circles! *grin*

[Oliver & Henry's Mum]

Phyrie, the Flower Rock is beautiful! It looks a bit like Soapstone mixed with Marble. I want to visit your Island...badly!

[Phyrie]

That would be very cool, Deb! One day...

[Deerie me]

That is very pretty rock Phyrie. It looks a bit like snowflake obsidian.

[RubyJeansMom]

Phyrie, That's so interesting about the fish, and I really like that flower rock, very pretty!

We have the Petoskey stone here. The souvenir shops in Northern Michigan make a mint selling them, although you can find them along most of the beaches up there.

A Petoskey stone is a rock and a fossil, often pebble-shaped, that is composed of a fossilized coral, Hexagonaria percarinata. The stones were formed as a result of glaciation, in which sheets of ice plucked stones from the bedrock, grinding off their rough edges and depositing them in Michigan's Upper Peninsula, and the northwestern portion of Michigan's lower peninsula. In some areas of Michigan, complete fossilized coral colony heads can be found.

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[SookDog]

RJM, before I even saw the little carved turtle I thought "that stone really looks like a turtle's shell" - how funny! It's very beautiful.

It's been so nice learning about where everyone lives! I love Philip's idea of a map!

Margie, I somehow feel like I've mentioned this before, but I can't seem to remember when or where - anyway, my mom grew up in Brooklyn. She lived in Canarsie most of her life, and now my grandparents (her parents) are in Mill Basin. My parents' first apartment was in Forest Hills (Queens) where we lived for the first year of my life. If you don't mind sharing, where in Brooklyn were you? What a small world!

[Margie-Rex's Mom]

Shari, I went to Brooklyn College and lived in a couple of different areas. I did live right near the college for a couple of years - near The Junction of Flatbush and Nostrand Avenues. However, the gangs were moving in - some in my apartment building - and things were getting...interesting. SO...I moved all the way down to Sheepshead Bay! 3 of us lived in a split level townhouse with a balcony that overlooked the marina. College kids shouldn't have such a great place!! We only could afford that for one year, then I moved into a place just off Ocean Parkway, near Avenue M.

My mother was a New York City girl. She was born in Flushing, Queens. Her family also lived in Bayside at some point. However, they lived out on Long Island for a long time, in Port Washington. Her mother had family up here and they would spend summers here. That is how she met my dad and moved up to Vermont.

Phyrie-when I looked at your photo of the flower rock, I was going to post "that looks like snowflake obsidian". Tracy beat me to it! That is a beautiful scuplture!