When I left Kansas, I had hoped that Indiana would be a place to stay a
few years, even if it was a desert for trout fishing. Nice enough place
is Indianapolis. We got a decent home at a decent price and the wife
acclimated quickly. And what it lacks in trout, it makes up in
transporation to trout streams in that I can be on my favorite waters
(SW Wisconsin, N. Michigan, and the Appalachians) in a realatively easy
day's drive. It has two fly shops and is really only lacking a decent
gun store if you like upland birds and nicer shotguns most of us can't
afford.

But as luck would have it, I got a phone call at the end of June from
an old friend asking me to consider something. After initially turning
it down, a courtship ensued and next week I will begin working out of
Kalamazoo MI. Easier access to trout streams (Grayling's *just* three
hours away plus there are things closer), great lakes steelhead and
salmon plus a good number of my friends live between Lansing and
Detroit.

Even tho I will be based in Kalamazoo, my initial area of concentration
is going to be a small hospital in Dowogiac.

If anyone is in the area or passing through, feel free to stop by and
say hello.