I grew up in up-state westren NY on a working farm on a dirt road. Still a working farm on a dirt road today just not in the family anymore. All kinds of hunting and fishing. After I was done going from coast to coast in my late teens and early 20s (hitchhiking once) I got into commercial construction and became asubcontractor for metal studs and drywall. That was in Rochester NY. In "89" I moved (again) to CA and landed in Modesto of all the god forsaken cities. I bounced from job to job for a while and never found my nook. Thats is where my mom lived so I hung there till I had had enough and landed in Lake Tahoe in "93". 21 dealer, restaurant manager, flyfishing guide and now, I am in health care. My hobbies are shooting, flyfishing &football GO STEELERS! I bleed Black & Gold...no offence to anyone. I am getting back into hunting and thats why I went out and got me a ML. Next is a Trad....saving my pennies.